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Quotation from The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
“The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”
The Gettysburg Address, Sentence 8 (Avalon Project text)
Lincoln sets words against deeds, a modest prediction that history reversed.
Citation: "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." — Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, Sentence 8 (Avalon Project text). (id gettysburg-address-q4)
Portrait: Lincolnatgettysburg, Attributed to Mathew Brady studio / unidentified photographer, Public domain.
