Top 7 Gettysburg Quotes

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

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

Prose Writing, Addresses, Gettysburg

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

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.

Jeff Shaara

Gettysburg, Changed, Monument

"Author Shaara's Pilgrimage To Civil War Sites". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. April 24, 2011.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Abraham Lincoln

War, Long, Gettysburg

Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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

Winfield Scott Hancock

Civil War, Doe, Gettysburg

"Fictional character: Major General Winfield Scott Hancock". "Gettysburg", www.imdb.com. 1993.

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.

Robert Ballard

Arizona, Gettysburg, Belt Buckles

“Erin Burnett Outfront”, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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

William Faulkner

Understanding, Gettysburg, Born

William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

When I read that I had to go to Gettysburg.

Dave Barry

Gettysburg

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