Gettysburg Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival… — Jim Wright
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them… — Carl Sandburg
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of… — Ronald Takaki
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution,… — Roy H. Williams
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics,… — Ernest Hemingway
We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before… — John Buford
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will… — Jeremy Denk
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations… — David McIntosh
That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg! — George Pickett
The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt. — David Amram
Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other… — Joshua
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there. — William Faulkner
[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of… — H. L. Mencken
Battles that involve oatmeal are just never going to end up being historic, you know?" Jake went on. "Gettysburg? No major oatmeal involvement. The Battle… — Katherine Applegate
I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor. — Donal Logue
I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but… — Jerry Spinelli
You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona. — Robert Ballard
As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad… — Abraham Lincoln
Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather… — Karl Rove

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