President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has ten sentences : "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us---that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion---that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain---that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom---and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Because there are a few known versions of the speech, modern scholars disagree as to its exact wording, and contemporary transcriptions published in newspaper accounts of the event and even handwritten copies by Lincoln himself differ in their wording, punctuation, and structure.
The various versions contain between 246-286 words.
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Edward Everett
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Yes that is true.
support the ideals of self-government and human rights
No, He gave this speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The Gettysburg Address
see Gettysburg Address
The Declaration of Independence
"The Second Inaugural" and "The Gettysburg Address.
When his voice cracked while giving the Gettysburg address.
Lincoln refers to the Declaration and quotes from it in the first line of his address.
Edward Everett
His famous speech was in Gettysburg (The Gettysburg Address).
Lincolns speech "The Gettysburg Address" and Lincoln "Second Inaugural Address". And on the wall behind Lincoln statue it says "IN THIS TEMPLE AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS ENSHRINED FOREVER". Lincolns speech "The Gettysburg Address" and Lincoln "Second Inaugural Address". And on the wall behind Lincoln statue it says "IN THIS TEMPLE AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS ENSHRINED FOREVER".
in the Gettysburg Address, saving the union is the purpose of the war
The Gettysburg Address.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address