Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863



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.

difficult to read

why ?
too succinct ?
just insert a multitude of legal jargon,,,

Can't wait for the movie!

It isn't prose. It was written to be given as a speech and doesn't flow smoothly.
(And, you damn know well it needs more commas!)

Imagine if a president of the Unites States wrapped up a speech like that nowadays. They'd immediately be branded a member of the far right wing fundamentalist religious zealot fringe by the mainstream media spinmeisters.

Or a Nazi socialist by the Faux News spinmeister.

Why do you think that?

:-k




That's why!

You mention anything related to God and country and it's a tell that he's not a Democrat!



Ears don't lie!

Good one, however you probably meant to say either 'national socialist', or 'Nazi'

Historically, Nazi was an abbreviation of 'National Socialist German Workers' Party'...in German, Nationale Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei , abbreviated NSDAP

Yeah, Democrats do hate God, come to think of it! I have been told that most of them are devil worshipers secretly planted to destroy the U.S.

not just Dems Robert. Virtually all liberals far far left wing OR moderate.

It is absurd.