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Summary. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most famous speeches in American history: the Gettysburg Address. The Union victory at Gettysburg was a key moment in the Civil War—thwarting General Robert E. Lee’s invasion of the North. President Lincoln offered this brief speech in a dedication ceremony for a new ...
- Lincoln Intended A Major Statement
- Lincoln Accepted An Invitation to Speak at Gettysburg
- How The Speech Was Written
- November 19, 1863, The Day of The Gettysburg Address
- What Was The Purpose of The Gettysburg address?
- Legacy of The Gettysburg Address
- Of The People, by The People, and For The People
- Sources
The Battle of Gettysburghad taken place in rural Pennsylvania for the first three days of July in 1863. Thousands of men, both Union and Confederate, had been killed. The magnitude of the battle stunned the nation. As the summer of 1863 turned into fall, the Civil War entered a fairly slow period with no major battles being fought. Lincoln, very co...
At that time, presidents did not often have the opportunity to give speeches. But the opportunity for Lincoln to express his thoughts on the war appeared in November. Thousands of Union soldiers dead at Gettysburg had been hastily buried after the battle months earlier and were finally being properly reburied. A ceremony was to be held to dedicate ...
Lincoln approached the task of writing the speech seriously. But unlike his speech at Cooper Unionnearly four years earlier, he did not need to undertake extensive research. His thoughts about how the war was being fought for a just cause had already been set firmly in his mind. A persistent myth is that Lincoln wrote the speech on the back of an e...
Another common myth about the ceremony at Gettysburg is that Lincoln was only invited as an afterthought and that the brief address he gave was nearly overlooked at the time. In fact, Lincoln’s involvement was always considered a vital part of the program, and the letter inviting himto participate makes that evident. The official invitation explain...
In the famous opening words, "Four score and seven years ago," Lincoln does not refer to the United States Constitution, but to the Declaration of Independence. That is important, as Lincoln was invoking Jefferson's phrase that "all men are created equal" as being central to the American government. In Lincoln's view, the Constitution was an imperf...
The text of the Gettysburg address was widely circulated following the event at Gettysburg, and with Lincoln's assassinationless than a year and a half later, Lincoln's words began to assume iconic status. It has never fallen out of favor and has been reprinted countless times. When President-elect Barack Obama spoke on election night, November 4, ...
Lincoln's lines at the conclusion, that "government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the Earth" has been extensively quoted and cited as the essence of the American system of government.
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29 de nov. de 2023 · In his iconic Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln uttered the now-famous quote, "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." These words encapsulate the essence of democracy and serve as a reminder of the fundamental principle on which nations are built: the power and authority lie with ...
In this address, Lincoln coined the phrase “of the people, by the people, for the people,” which has since entered the national lexicon as an elegant and concise definition of American democracy. Just as Lincoln began the speech with a reference to the Declaration of Independence , this final statement nods to the same founding document.
6 de jan. de 2016 · "government by the people" i.e. the people either give permission to specific representatives to make governing decisions (in a large democracy), or directly make governing decisions themselves. The people STEER the government. "government for the people" i.e. the point of government is to work towards purposes defined by the people.
The people of the United States have declared that this Constitution shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposition or dispute their authority." As for the many sources that say the expression originates in John Wycliffe's prologue to his 1384 translation of the Bible; this is not true. If you wish to verify for yourself, there ...
16 de mar. de 2019 · Abraham Lincoln’s closing remarks of his short yet famous Gettysburg Address of November 19, 1863, have become proverbial as “Government of the people, by the people, for the people.”. Yet, as is the case with some other famous utterances of Lincoln, he relied on the wisdom and insights of others to create his memorable phrase that ...
