Tuesday
19 November 2013 is the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg
address. Less than 30% of the people of the United States in 1863
supported President Lincoln. Over 95% of the newspapers in the United
States, after the address was given, said, “…it is not worthy to read.”
Please
take a few minutes to read this address which along with the Declaration of
Independence are the keystones of American Philosophy:
“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
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 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.”
Securing Our Future,
dan
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