I should be glad
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes. Edward Everett
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I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes. Edward Everett
I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor. Donal Logue
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
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
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
When I read that I had to go to Gettysburg. Dave Barry
If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there’s a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards. Dave Barry
May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America, may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us. Cory Booker
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? … Read more
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