Text of Lincoln's Speech
Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address," Speech Text - Voices of Democracy
A new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. [2] Now we are engaged in a great civil war.
Gettysburg address delivered at Gettysburg Pa. Nov. 19th, 1863 ...
“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 ...
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
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 ...
The Gettysburg Address - Rare and Manuscript Collections
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all ...
Gettysburg Address | Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and ...
Four score and seven years ago ... · Our fathers brought forth upon this continent ... ·... the proposition that all men are created equal · Now we are engaged in ...
Text of Lincoln's Speech - Gettysburg Address - Owl Eyes
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 ...
Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address - American Rhetoric
Fourscore 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 ...
Gettysburg Address - Wikipedia
[...] 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 ...
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln - The Avalon Project
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The ...
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address - National Park Service
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ...
The President's Last Public Address
To the blacks we say: This cup of liberty which these, your old masters, hold to your lips we will dash from you, and leave you to the chances of gathering the ...
Lincoln, House Divided speech (1858) - Dickinson College
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to ...
July 4, 1861: July 4th Message to Congress | Miller Center
About this speech ... Between the fall of Fort Sumter on April 13, 1861, and July of that same year, President Lincoln took a number of actions in response to ...
Abraham Lincoln "Cooper Union" Speech Text - Voices of Democracy
Abraham Lincoln, “Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Institute, New York City” New York, NY (27 February 1860)
House Divided Speech - Lincoln Home National Historic Site (U.S. ...
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect ...
Lyceum Address - Abraham Lincoln Online
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of ...
Speech to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield (1838)
Lincoln's Lyceum Speech remains a stark rebuke to the dangers of mob violence and an enduring defense of the rule of law. Selected by. The National Constitution ...
December 1, 1862: Second Annual Message | Miller Center
In the inaugural address I briefly pointed out the total inadequacy of disunion as a remedy for the differences between the people of the two sections. I did so ...
Abraham Lincoln, THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 19 November ...
... Lincoln delivered a brief address to an audience of about 15,000 people, ... Paragraph numbers have been added. This electronic text is © 2006 David J. Voelker.
First Annual Message | The American Presidency Project
The inaugural address at the beginning of the Administration and the message ... Daniel Stowell for his assistance in correcting this text. Abraham Lincoln, First ...