The Gettysburg Address

2 to 3 Minutes
3 Paragraphs
10 Sentences
227 Words
145 Years Since

As President Abraham Lincoln stood somberly looking to those sacrified fields that the blood of the nations youth had stained in the long course of the Civil War his words echoed through the Republic as the Gettysburg Address escaped his lips. It would set the course of the Republic for the next century and a half, capturing the spirit of those ideals set out almost a century before....

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.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Gettysburg
• Address
• Abraham
• Lincoln
• Civil
• War
• between
• the
• States
• Republic
• Democracy
• Freedom

[sonamerica1790]

Thank you so much for posting this. I never tire of hearing those words. They stir my soul.

[wyattmcintyre]

Thank you kindly, it was an amazing speech, I just wish I could have done President Lincoln's words justice!

[freekrolik]

RON Paul!

[wyattmcintyre]

No, Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. Ron Paul might have been alive for it but though

[stardestroyerjedi]

Wyatt, you bring a lot of passion here, thank you for this video, I love the gettysburg address and I love how you recite t

[wyattmcintyre]

Thank you my friend, I appreciate it

[slavuBOG]

what's more

you don't have to be american to feel the sense of these words

[cornelius40]

As a Canadian and a world citizen, this is one of the best speeches in the history of man kind.

[sharanchips]

i have to memorize this for school and im watching this over and over again cuz it needs to squeeze into my brain dude!!!

[wyattmcintyre]

It's a good way to see it

[Fringe111]

Yep, that's how I see it whether your a republican or democrate