Abraham Lincoln, The World Still Notes!

On this day, Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered, albeit very brief, the most memorable and powerful address ever given by a U.S. President: The Gettysburg Address

Though Lincoln would say, during his speech, “the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here.”, we have indeed not forgotten, nor shall we ever, for we still have “unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced””

The Gettysburg Address in Full:

“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 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 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.“- Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

It is said that in our history lies our future. In this instance, I sincerely hope so, for it we absolutely need a “new birth of freedom” in a nation where freedom is not cherished nearly as much as the days of Lincoln, particularly the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama.