A few days ago
bahar s

Abraham Lincoln ‘s quote about democracy?

there was a quote that he said and i need but i can’t find it. i think it is by Abraham Lincoln but not sure can u guys tell me how it goes. it kinda sounds like this but it has more to it than this

“Democracy is by the people and for the people”

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A few days ago
greyguy

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Lincoln’s remark at the end of his Gettysburg Address is a slight adaptation of the words of Theodore Parker (1810-1860), in a speech to the North Eastern Anti-Slavery Convention in May of 1850:

“A democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people;…for shortness’ sake, I will call it the idea of freedom.”

Parker’s speech was well-known to scholars and was reprinted in “Discourses of Slavery” in 1863, the same year as Lincoln’s speech. Lincoln likely was aware that educated abolitionist listeners would make the connection to Parker’s speech and its anti-slavery purpose.

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A few days ago
klaatu
“…and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

The above is a quote from the last line of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, probably one of the greatest speeches in American history.

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A few days ago
anobium625
Surely this is the end of the Gettysburg Address, “and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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5 years ago
Anonymous
Gettysburg address of 1863.
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A few days ago
IJToomer
The Gettysburg Address – see below…
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A few days ago
ballin
“A democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people;…for shortness’ sake, I will call it the idea of freedom.”
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