2. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a
new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are
created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of
that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for
those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot
hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little
note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did
here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—
that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government
of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Gettysburg
Address
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3. “Our chief want is
someone who will inspire
us to be what we know we
could be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “Nothing is impossible,
the word itself says
‘I’m possible’!”
Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian, Oscar Winner

5. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is,
‘What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King

6. “Be silent or let thy words be worth more than
silence.”
Pythagoras, Pythagorean theorem, philosopher

7. “There are those that look at things the way they
are and ask why… I dream of things that never were
and ask why not?”
Robert F Kennedy

8. “I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor
when I loved; since I could not give gifts,
I gave words.”
Ovid
Greek poet, mythology

9. There are but two things worth living for:
To do what is worthy of being written
And to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot

10. “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are
these, 'It might have been.’”
John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet and author

11. “I like good strong words that mean something…”
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

12. Napoleon Hill, author Think and Grow Rich
Think twice before you speak, because your
words and influence will plant the seed of either
success of failure in the mind of another.

13. All the great things are simple, and many can be
expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

14. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for
words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

15. In words are seen the state of mind and
character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch (46-120) Greek essayist, and biographer.

16. Emily Dickinson
He ate and drank the precious Words,
his Spirit grew robust…

17. “The difference between the right
word
and the almost right word is the
difference between
lightning and the lightning bug.”
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
U.S. humorist, writer, and
lecturer.

18. “Kind words
can be short
and easy to
speak,
but their
echoes are
truly
endless.”
Mother Teresa

19. “Words are, of course, the most
powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling, British writer.

20. How can I serve you?
Thank you!
I believe in you!

21. Song by Rebecca Ferguson, Teach Me How To Be Loved
Crafted by Al Batinga, alb@speakup.ws