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Pericles's Funeral Oration. " Pericles's Funeral Oration " ( Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides 's History of the Peloponnesian War. [2] The speech was supposed to have been delivered by Pericles, an eminent Athenian politician, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (BC 431 ...
A 1796 portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart. The thought of the United States without George Washington as its president caused concern among many Americans. Thomas Jefferson disagreed with many of Washington's policies and later led the Democratic-Republicans in opposition to many Federalist policies, but he joined his political rival Alexander Hamilton, leader of the Federalists ...
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's ...
Date of death Age at death (years) Cause Place of death Place of burial John Murtha Democratic Pennsylvania (12th district)February 8, 2010 77 Infection following gallbladder surgery [19]
“The freedom which so many Americans have fought for and died for comes with responsibilities as well as rights. And among those are love and charity and duty and patriotism.” — Barack Obama
3 November. French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism brought her execution by guillotine. Paris. France. Executioner. Elijah Parish Lovejoy. 1837. 7 November. American journalist, newspaper editor and abolitionist.
65 Plato Quotes. 1. “Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”. 2. “All I really know is the extent ...
Nearly 250 years ago, America's Founding Fathers made good on their dream of establishing one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.. On July 4, 1776, they signed The Declaration ...