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.
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
-- Speech at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall
not perish from the earth.
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
-- Speech at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863
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- This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government... - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government... - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging... - Accursed are the censors,
for they shall inhibit the people... - Abraham Lincoln wrote his Gettysburg address on the BACK of an envelope and
the Postal Service from that very day to the present time has been losing
more and more mail each and every day.
Put the address where you intend the mail to go on... - Abraham Lincoln always said you can't fool all the people all of the time.
But Abraham Lincoln was fooling when he said that.... - One score and seven years ago, your fathers brought forth Incontinence,
a new notion, conceived by Libertines and dedicated... - There is what I call the American idea.... This idea demands,
as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy... - Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent.
Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in...
