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  • There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

    "Fictional character: Major General Winfield Scott Hancock". "Gettysburg", www.imdb.com. 1993.
  • 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 here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.
  • It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

    Civil War   Tasks   Lasts  
    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.
  • Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.

    Men   Order   Enemy  
  • The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans.

  • it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

    Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.594, Simon and Schuster
  • That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

    War   Men   Division  
    Richard F. Selcer, George E. Pickett (1995). “"Faithfully and forever your soldier": Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA”
  • As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethoven's last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.

    "Every Good Boy Does Fine" by Jeremy Denk, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2013.
  • If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards.

    Thinking   Guy   Looks  
    Source: www.bostonglobe.com
  • The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.

  • I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.

  • Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

    Military   War   Sleep  
    George Edward Pickett, La Salle Corbell Pickett (1913). “The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett”
  • Four score 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 created equal.

    Change   Freedom   Father  
    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863
  • Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather than petitions to Congress had had a bomb?

    Guy   What If   Bombs  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

    "Author Shaara's Pilgrimage To Civil War Sites". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. April 24, 2011.
  • I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

    Feelings   Mentor   Kind  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle

    Arthur Quinn (2012). “Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase”, p.7, Routledge
  • Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

    'The Soul of Man under Socialism'
  • Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes. Later it was out of guilt, trying to find atonement in God's eyes. But atonement is free, never earned. And I've learned that the only person I need to please with my life is God.

    Eye   Guilt   Trying  
  • I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg.

    War   Pbs   Bob  
    Twitter post from Apr 13, 2011
  • To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

    Army   Order   Soldier  
  • To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author's part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it.

    Louis Auchincloss (1979). “Life, Law, and Letters: Essays and Sketches”, Houghton Mifflin
  • 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? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.

    War   Years   Two  
    "Grass" l. 7 (1918)
  • Few generals were as brilliant as Robert E. Lee and few battles as titanic -- and puzzling -- as Gettysburg. Why did Lee fail? In Lost Triumph, Tom Carhart offers a bold and provocative new assessment. Agree or disagree, it is sure to stimulate debate among even the most seasoned Civil War buffs.

    War   Assessment   Battle  
  • 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!

    Writing   Night   Guy  
  • A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.

    Prayer   Men   Marketing  
  • 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.

  • Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

    William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”
  • That we we here highly resolve 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 people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.
  • It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

    Writing   Law   Addresses  
    Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.594, Simon and Schuster
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