Community
Gettysburg is a town made famous by one of the most important battles of the American Civil War and by one of the most significant speeches in America's history. Gettysburg College and the Lutheran Theological Seminary are both located within the District. The town is encircled by the Gettysburg National Military Park. It is within easy access to a number of metropolitan, academic, cultural and recreational centers. Washington is 78 miles (126 km) south, Baltimore is 54 miles (87 km) south, and Harrisburg is 36 miles (58 km) north.
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Famous quotes containing the word community:
“What I wanted was to create thoughtful citizens—people who believed they could live interesting lives and be productive and socially useful. So I tried to create a community of children and adults where the adults shared and respected the children’s lives.”
—Deborah Meier (b. 1931)
“The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate, so that being thrown into the balance it may prevent either scale from preponderating.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)