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Abraham Lincoln's most famous speech was his Gettysburg Address in 1863. It is considered so powerful because it was simple and "real," explaining the realities of the Civil War in as few as 272 words. The entire text, with more famous lines bolded:
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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 battlefield 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 cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . . we cannot 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.
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Did Abraham Lincoln say or write that blacks are subhuman?
no
What would Abraham Lincoln's best friends say to him?
You are a good president.
How much is a embosed print of Abraham Lincoln worth?
It is hard to say what an embossed print of Abraham Lincoln would be worth. It would depend on the condition and the collectibility of the print.
What year did Abraham Lincoln say the Gettysburg address?
November 19 1863
When did Abraham Lincoln say Everybody Likes a Compliment?
He began a letter this way.
Why did Abraham Lincoln say the country was being tested?
Because of the civil war.
Was Abraham Lincoln's mother from an Ethiopian tribe?
There is no evidence that Abraham Lincoln's mother was biracial. According to William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, Lincoln's mother was of African descent, from an Ethiopian tribe.
Which battle made Abraham Lincoln say that he would end slavery in south if the war continued?
Antietam
Why did Abraham Lincoln say that he was fighting to end slayery at the beginning of the civil war?
Lincoln believed it was important to keep these borders states in union, even though that were slave states. That is why in 1861 he continued to say that his aim was to hold the united states together, not to abolish slavery.
Did Abraham Lincoln ever say cool?
yes ... in his famous cooper union speech
What did John Wilkes Booth say to Abraham Lincoln in Latin?
sic semper tyrannus
What did Abraham Lincoln say was one of the most important purposes of government?
Abraham Lincoln said one of the most important purposes of government "is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do for themselves, government ought not to interfere."
