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Position:Home>History> Where are these famous words from?Question: Where are these famous words from!? "the nation of the people, by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth"
i heard htis on a spanish television show ( in spanish) but i recognized it as those words in english!. i only know it from a song from WWI "it's time for every body to be a soldier"!. is it from the constitution or somethign!? or just that song!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It's the Gettysburg Address If you follow the link, your quote comes out of the last paragraph, last line or two!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It's a slight variation, probably due to your memory, but it is, actually, a quote from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "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!. 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 battle-field of that war!. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live!. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this!. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground!. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract!. 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 have thus far so nobly advanced!. It is rather for us to be 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 -- that 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!." As you can see, your tidbit is the last sentence of what is, in my eyes, one of the best speeches ever written and delivered!. Lincoln said that the world would not remember what he said that day!. I think time has proven him wrong!. He delivered that speech in 1863, and I, for one, will always remember it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It was part of Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg adress, years befor the WWI, actually it was in the Civil war period of the United States!. He was meaning that the Union (the north which wanted slave freedom) would not be destoyed by the confederates (the south which seperated from the union and wanted to preserve slavery)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Gettysburg AddressWww@QuestionHome@Com The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln (16th U!.S!. President)Www@QuestionHome@Com |