Lincoln: 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 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."
Bamboozle:"Why can't I just eat my waffle?"
And he wrote that speech himself.
Nowadays all the speeches are written by writers, and I don’t think we can truly have a great orator president anymore, in the way the old presidents used to speak.