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Lincoln's soon-to-be Secretary of State, William H. Seward, later made suggestions that softened the original tone somewhat and contributed to the speech's famous closing. [5] Lincoln's speech had originally ended with the sentence, "With you, and not with me, is the solemn question of 'Shall it be peace or a sword?'" [6] Seward wrote that ...
Lincoln’s first inaugural address was an all-out attempt to prevent civil war; it’s the one in which he coined the famous phrase about appealing “to the better angels of our nature” to ...
From Lincoln’s summoning of “the better angels of our nature” to FDR’s intonation that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” to Kennedy’s call to “ask not what your ...
The Better Angels, a 1979 thriller novel by Charles McCarry; The Better Angels, a 2014 biographical film; The Better Angels of Our Nature, a 2011 book by Steven Pinker; Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, wherein the phrase better angels is used
Braver Angels was founded by David Blankenhorn, Bill Doherty, and David Lapp shortly after the 2016 United States presidential election. [7] The organization's original Better Angels name was inspired by Abraham Lincoln's plea for national unity at the close of his first inaugural address: [8] We must not be enemies. ...
The Better Angels, aka, The Green Blade Rises, produced by Terrence Malick, focused on Lincoln's upbringing, showing the events and tragedies that forged him into the man he became. Lincoln is featured in the 2018 film documentary The Gettysburg Address, voiced by David Morse.
In his first inaugural address, after painting the United States as a crime-ridden hellscape, Donald Trump said, "This American carnage stops right here and stops right now."
"A New Birth of Freedom", a phrase from the Gettysburg Address, served as the inaugural theme to commemorate the 200-year anniversary of the birth year of President Abraham Lincoln. In his speeches to the crowds, Obama referred to ideals expressed by Lincoln about renewal, continuity, and national unity.