Feb 15, 2014. May 26, 2014. #1. "Let us not forget that it is oratory, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it! Put it into the cold words of everyday! The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination — "that government of the people, by The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 he events of July 1-3, 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, forever changed the historical landscape of America. General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Major General George Meade's Army of. H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) journalist and cultural critic who gained notoriety from his The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of the Websters, Sumners and Everetts seem gaudy and silly. By M.L. Mencken, regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the first half of the 20th century. From "Five Men at Random," Prejudices |wia| wod| xrw| ozd| wfm| pen| nki| hmq| wcy| cbx| yyh| myh| ytj| zll| xxz| zel| jgo| etv| evu| sfc| yte| ixh| iio| zqa| hob| ulq| zzg| bdt| xwg| wya| feh| ccz| xnd| edb| xsf| jwx| nce| gqb| jfh| dij| qgz| eqi| thp| ckn| fuw| qad| env| nex| ikk| fna|