Quotes About Lincoln Gettysburg

#1. 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.
- President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863

Abraham Lincoln

#2. What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a new birth of freedom.

Bruce Catton

#3. Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

#4. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Every single day I'm shocked.

Karlie Kloss

#7. The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.

Clayton Christensen

#8. The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

Mary Parker Follett

#9. My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.

Timothy O'Donnell

#10. 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. The approach elevates the words.

Neil Genzlinger

#11. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Abraham Lincoln

#12. The dugout in the weeds or leaves beneath a backyard willow, the rivulet of a seasonal creek, even the ditch between the front yard and the road-all of these places are entire universes to a young child.

Richard Louv

#13. How can you think it's cool when he calls you his bitch, but then get upset when he treats you like a dog?

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#14. What did The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Uncle Tom's Cabin and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and all that have to do with our present enthusiasm for women's rights? Not that much, really. Women just got lucky this time.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#15. I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it ... and a bit of confidence maybe.

Dexter Fletcher

#16. If artists would explain more, people would like art more. You realize that?

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. 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

#18. Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

Robert Coles

#19. Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on the back of an envelope. One guy on the back of an envelope wrote the great Gettysburg Address - while every night it takes six guys to write this crap!

David Letterman

#20. But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.

John Muir

#21. 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, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that?

Roy H. Williams

#22. Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

Oswald Chambers

#23. Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

#24. 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 equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans.

Ronald Takaki