Quote of the Day for Monday, October 5, 2026

The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863

Our note: From the Gettysburg Address, honouring the soldiers who died there.

Verified in the full text of Gettysburg Address on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #4

Painted the same decade: Woman with a Parrot, Gustave Courbet, 1866

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