"Fourscore 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 battle-field 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 here 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."
Abraham Lincoln used to write things that came mind on scraps of paper and kept them in his hat. When it came time for one of his speeches, he would dump the thoughts on his desk and arrange them into a speech.
He would not be elected today because he did not have the education the politicians demand we, the People must have today.
He valued sweat equity. A concept that people have forgotten about.
Forget today's politicians. I prefer my speeches in Layman's Terms. Amen
That explains the large hat, and large number of very unique quotes.
Many decades ago I memorized this for extra credit in 8th grade. I almost always teared up at the last section.
an interesting fact about the address - another famous speaker talked before Lincoln, but admitted that this tiny speech had more impact than the 13,000 words that Edward Everett spoke.
'On the day following the ceremony, Everett himself wrote to Lincoln, “I wish that I could flatter myself that I had come as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.”
https://www.britannica.com/event/Gettysburg-Address
Where does Bigfoot fit on the food chain?
thanks for the reminder🇺🇸 and there's something going on with Lincoln and the Great Awakening, but not sure what...
President Trump and Q have referenced Mt. Rushmore, and there is a secret room behind Lincoln's head on MR.
https://www.discovery.com/exploration/Secret-Room-Behind-Mount-Rushmore
notice that Lincoln's head is buried on Jfk Jr.s magazine cover, almost like there was a explosion/event that brought all the dust/dirt to cover it. was it a message about our future/what the DS had planned?🤔
https://themarshallreport.wordpress.com/2021/02/07/jfk-jr-how-did-george-know/
Applicable today.
If God is on our side, who can be against us?
Indeed, these are very moving words. And especially, if the Union he so preserved was indeed dedicated to the revolutionary ideas of 1776.
However, 1871 saw a change. The Constitution of became the capitalized version the CONSTITUTION FOR, and in 1873 saw the unconstitutional coinage act of 1873.
Again, debts played a role and in 1913 the FED was set up on Christmas Eve.
What do you want for Christmas? The FED?
Rep. Patman of Dallas Texas remarked that this institution would promote all kinds of institutions to rise up and leave posterity homeless on the soil the ancestors conquered....
And it is coming to pass. Debt slavery runs high. And Biden cannot do anything else than to increase the debt.
Maybe it has to happen this way, a sped up blow-up of this debt-slave-system, so once more we can usher in a time devoted to the ideal of liberty.
However, this Lincoln-legacy, in deed is reprehensible, though in his words intention may have been correct.