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:
“Jesus would recommend you to pass the first day of the week rather otherwise than you pass it now, and to seek some other mode of bettering the morals of the community than by constraining each other to look grave on a Sunday, and to consider yourselves more virtuous in proportion to the idleness in which you pass one day in seven.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When you have come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,” you may indeed set over you a king whom the LORD your God will choose. One of your own community you may set as king over you; you are not permitted to put a foreigner over you, who is not of your own community.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 17:14,15.