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Democracy was facing its toughest test 159 years ago and Abraham Lincoln's fine speech at Gettysburg was a turning point that saved it. It is impossible to read President Lincoln’s Gettysburg ...
Influential Abraham Lincoln quotes. 1. “Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.” —Cooper Union Address, New York, February 27, 1860 2. “Now, as to ...
I give thanks for freedom of speech: If we still know what it means ... President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the fourth Thursday in November to be a National Day of Thanksgiving.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is marking the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address by displaying its copy and offering free admission on Saturday.
Lincoln had previously expressed support for such power in his famous 1858 “House Divided” speech. Nevertheless, by the time of the convention, Lincoln was not widely known.
When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...