Gettysburg Address Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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 chatting over dinner.…
— Neil Genzlinger
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The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a…
— Sarah Vowell
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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
— Ernest Hemingway
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People of a television culture need “plain language†both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances…
— Neil Postman
Who Wrote These Gettysburg Address Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Gettysburg Address Quotes as follows: