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I will tell you what Lincolnthought and what Washingtonthought and what people todaystill think.It's an experiment, associated Press's an experiment.That's what they said.And Joanna [ Breyer's wife ] paid each of our grandchildrencertain amount of money tomemorize the Gettysburg Address.What I want the students to pickup, if I can remember, are thefirst two lines, ‘ Four score andseven years ago, our forefathersbrought upon -- created a newcountry.A country that was dedicated toliberty and the proposition thatall men are created equal.Conceived in liberty. ’. – Stephen Breyer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
War and conflict, death and loss are not relics of our American history; they're a part of Americans' story. Here in Arlington lie heroes who gave what President Lincoln called ‘the last full measure of devotion,’ they did not only die at Gettysburg or in Flanders Field or on the beaches of Normandy, but in the mountains of Afghanistan, the deserts of Iraq in the last 20 years. – Jill Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. – H. L. Mencken	added by Normando 4 years ago
As our country struggled for its survival, President Lincoln dedicated the battlefield at Gettysburg as a final resting place for those who died here that the nation might live, today, the nation that lived pauses to pay tribute to one of those who died there. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is upholding the highest level of what the Army says is honorable service. the story of his valor and sacrifice at the center of the Union battle line ... is a very inspiring story to a lot of people who study Gettysburg. – Katie Lawhon	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The story of his valor and sacrifice at the center of the Union battle line ... is a very inspiring story to a lot of people who study Gettysburg. – Katie Lawhon	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We need for Alamo Plaza to have the kind of reverence and respect for history that we see in places like the battlefield at Gettysburg and at the monuments at Pearl Harbor. – City Councilman Joe Krier	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Pledge-in the tradition of Washington's Farewell Address or Lincoln's Gettysburg Address-is not a prayer to God, but a statement about who we are as a nation. Dissenters have every right to sit out the Pledge, but they can't silence everyone else. – Eric Rassbach	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
[Foreigners] might not know the Gettysburg Address. – Barack Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67. – Norman R. Augustine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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 on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. – David McIntosh	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I will tell you what Lincolnthought and what Washingtonthought and what people todaystill think.It's an experiment, associated Press's an experiment.That's what they said.And Joanna [ Breyer's wife ] paid each of our grandchildrencertain amount of money tomemorize the Gettysburg Address.What I want the students to pickup, if I can remember, are thefirst two lines, ‘ Four score andseven years ago, our forefathersbrought upon -- created a newcountry.A country that was dedicated toliberty and the proposition thatall men are created equal.Conceived in liberty. ’.

– Stephen Breyer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

War and conflict, death and loss are not relics of our American history; they're a part of Americans' story. Here in Arlington lie heroes who gave what President Lincoln called ‘the last full measure of devotion,’ they did not only die at Gettysburg or in Flanders Field or on the beaches of Normandy, but in the mountains of Afghanistan, the deserts of Iraq in the last 20 years.

– Jill Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.

– H. L. Mencken

added by Normando
4 years ago

As our country struggled for its survival, President Lincoln dedicated the battlefield at Gettysburg as a final resting place for those who died here that the nation might live, today, the nation that lived pauses to pay tribute to one of those who died there.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is upholding the highest level of what the Army says is honorable service. the story of his valor and sacrifice at the center of the Union battle line ... is a very inspiring story to a lot of people who study Gettysburg.

– Katie Lawhon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The story of his valor and sacrifice at the center of the Union battle line ... is a very inspiring story to a lot of people who study Gettysburg.

– Katie Lawhon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We need for Alamo Plaza to have the kind of reverence and respect for history that we see in places like the battlefield at Gettysburg and at the monuments at Pearl Harbor.

– City Councilman Joe Krier

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Pledge-in the tradition of Washington's Farewell Address or Lincoln's Gettysburg Address-is not a prayer to God, but a statement about who we are as a nation. Dissenters have every right to sit out the Pledge, but they can't silence everyone else.

– Eric Rassbach

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

[Foreigners] might not know the Gettysburg Address.

– Barack Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.

– Norman R. Augustine

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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 on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

– David McIntosh

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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