One hundred and fifty years after Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, equality for many Americans remains elusive. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona. — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive… — John Buford Copy Share Image
If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments,… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
“It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no… — Robert Coles Copy Share Image
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding… — George Pickett Copy Share Image
Lincoln's address at Gettysburg - 272 words dedicating a cemetery at the site of one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles -… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been a soldier all my life. I've fought from the ranks on up, you know my service. But sir, I must… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
“Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
When I went to an Aspen seminar on "American Scriptures" - the bicentennial of the Declaration and they discussed the preamble and… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“What is it? something you live and breathe in like air? a kind of vacuum filled with wraithlike and indomitable anger and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine, who so valiantly defended Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863, was… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw,… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
“Gettysburg is still considered the most famous battle of the war. Why? At Gettysburg, the tide turned. Up until then, the South… — Jim O'Connor Copy Share Image
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry:… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
“The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence.… — David McIntosh Copy Share Image
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
And my parents live down in West Virginia, and I have to drive through the Shenandoah Valley pretty often to go visit… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“Gettysburg was the last time Lee’s army would have the chance to be on the offensive during a campaign, as Grant’s Overland… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words and he delivered it under three minutes. He labored on it for days. The "featured speaker,"… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if… — Neil Genzlinger Copy Share Image
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