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How Is Pericles Address Similar To Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

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Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address speech was influenced by Pericles’s speech, because the two speeches deal with the same subject matter in similar ways. Both of speeches were presented on the occasion on serious deaths, regarding the military. Pericles stated, “The power is in the hands of the people. It is not in the hands of a small group.” Abraham Lincoln said something similar in his speech while talking about the government. He said, “...government of the people, by the people, and for the people…” Both of these fragments from their speeches are spoken about in the same manner, and resemble each other. Pericles mentioned that his was an original role model, and people will remember it in the future. At the end of Lincoln’s speech he stated,

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