Text of Gettysburg Address

[Duke of Buckingham]

Text of Gettysburg Address

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.

Shortly after Everett's well-received remarks, Lincoln spoke for only a few minutes. With a "few appropriate remarks", he was able to summarize the war in just ten sentences.

Despite the historical significance of Lincoln's speech, modern scholars disagree as to its exact wording, and contemporary transcriptions published in newspaper accounts of the event and even handwritten copies by Lincoln himself differ in their wording, punctuation, and structure. Of these versions, the Bliss version, written well after the speech as a favor for a friend, is viewed by many as the standard text. Its text differs, however, from the written versions prepared by Lincoln before and after his speech. It is the only version to which Lincoln affixed his signature, and the last he is known to have written.

[Slicker]

If all men are created equal, how come there are so many morons in the world?

[John P. Myers]

If all men are created equal, how come there are so many morons in the world?

Agreed! But i have an answer: If there were no morons, who would cook our fries at McDonald's?

[Duke of Buckingham]

I wrote this in a time that some are claiming for revolution ( that will lead to a civil war). It was another time when men of peace had to go to war and defend the principles of the American Revolution.

All the world is steaming for a civil war between 2 different visions for our future. I hope that good sense come to the minds of men before we start killing each other.

I really hope we can find a solution before we come to that. No war is worst or more bloody than a civil war. How it would be a civil war on a world with Atomic weapons?

[Slicker]

I wrote this in a time that some are claiming for revolution ( that will lead to a civil war). It was another time when men of peace had to go to war and defend the principles of the American Revolution.

All the world is steaming for a civil war between 2 different visions for our future. I hope that good sense come to the minds of men before we start killing each other.

I really hope we can find a solution before we come to that. No war is worst or more bloody than a civil war. How it would be a civil war on a world with Atomic weapons?

Palastine and Isreal? The only think that wouldkeep them from going nuclear is that they are so close to each other that the nuclear fallout would also hurt the one that sent the bomb.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I would say Syria is a good example of a civil war. It is easiest to speak from the outside the monstrosities that men from both sides are doing to each other one thing very different is to be the woman raped or the innocent man killed or the children that saw is parents being killed in front of him.

The situation in Palestine and Israel is very different, in there there is two opposite visions of what is fair and no one wants to take the first step to solve the problem. It is not denying the basic trues that men will come to a solution.

In a war, any war, is men against men killing each other and every men are victims of older solutions anchored on prejudice and politics that have nothing to do with our real world. We need to find a way very soon and very quickly before it is to late.

I made a video about it, it was one of the first and maybe it is not very well done but it has a message on it, I think.