Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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 come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do.
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 hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us, the living, we here be 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 these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, 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
November 19, 1863
We have all been here before...
Deja-vu CSNY ~ 1970
Don’t even think that democrats wouldn’t use their control of the media and culture to paint themselves as the party of lincoln. They won’t stop till they can reinstitute a brave new world communist “slave-ocracy” at the point of a gun in the same manner as the republicans deconstructed the democrats slavery in the 1860’s. They’re begging you to try. Just try a national divorce and see how fast fort sumpter day comes around. F’round with this and find out. History can’t repeat itself close enough for a democrat to learn their lessons, how about us?