Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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.
Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 7, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 23.
For that, the Church burned him at the stake. Note the phraseology and compare it to Gettysburg Address {458852}. It is not known whether Lincoln was aware of this quotation or others that used similar wording.
Trumbo was morally opposed to war. He also refused to name Hollywood communists to Congressional Committees during the Red Scare. He was then blacklisted from his occupation, screen writing.
The government relationship to people phrase, although probably Lincoln's most famous, was not totally original. John Adams came close in a 1774 proclamation. As did John Marshall in his McCulloch v. Maryland decision. Daniel Webster's Speech on Foot's Resolution was very close. as was Theodore Parker in 1850 {629578}. There was also Thomas Cooper in 1795. But the earliest appears to be John Wycliffe in 1382 {567292}. It is not known with which of these Lincoln was familiar.
See Thomas Jefferson: {605051} for a somewhat similar notion.
He was an American resident at the time he gave this speech.
This quotation had a close proximity to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address {458852}. Although this was probably Lincoln's most famous, was not totally original. John Adams came close in a 1774 proclamation {598723}. As did John Marshall in his McCulloch v. Maryland decision. Daniel Webster's Speech on Foot's Resolution was very close {606471}. There was also Thomas Cooper in 1795 {598723} . But the earliest close phrase use appears to be John Wycliffe in 1382 {567292}. It is not known with which of these Lincoln was familiar,
There is an close similarity between the Dutch revolutionary statements and that of the Founding Fathers of America. The Dutch rebels were very well aware of the American Revolution and the subsequent establishment of a republic, and emulated much of the American experience. They were the first foreign people to be inspired by the American Revolution. Many followed.
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
