by New Deal democrat
From Lincoln’s Gettysburg Handle:
“… [O]ur fathers introduced forth on this continent, a brand new nation, conceived in Liberty, and devoted to the proposition that each one males are created equal.
“Now we’re engaged in an important civil battle, testing whether or not that nation, or any nation so conceived and so devoted, can lengthy endure…. We’ve got come to dedicate … a last resting place for many who [ ] gave their lives that that nation would possibly dwell. It’s altogether becoming and correct that we must always do that.
“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not 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 … can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living 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 government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
[Above photo: Gettysburg National Cemetery]
