PumpkinHead Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 The Gettysburg Address : President Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. * Picture of the Soldier's National Monument at the Gettysburg National Cemetery (Spot where President Lincoln gave his speech) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue J Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Right on, thanks for posting. I was surprised that there wasn't a bigger to-do about this yesterday. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Nice one, Brother! Semper Fi! Salute! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Pirate Robert Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 bunch of bullshit designed to obfuscate the fact that Lincoln was fighting AGAINST the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and FOR the principle that a "government of consent" means " a government to which men must consent, or be shot." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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