To declare this chapter in the history of the United States closed and ended, and I bid you turn with me with your faces to the future, quickened by the memories of the past, but w...
We owe them the spiritual reëstablishment of the Union as well; for they not only reunited States, they reunited the spirits of men.
We admire physical courage, but we admire above all things else moral courage.
We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves selves...
It has been a privilege, ladies and gentlemen, to come and say these simple words, which I am sure are merely putting your thought into lang...
We are dedicated to freedom, and that freedom means the freedom of the human spirit.
Those who serve this Nation, whether in peace or in war, should serve it without thought of themselves.
There is no immortality that is safer than theirs.
And just so soon as the tasks of peace are performed in the same spirit of self-sacrifice and devotion, peace societies will not be necessar...
I can never speak in praise of war, ladies and gentlemen; you would not desire me to do so.
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