Nick Stephens
The Ideals of the Gettysburg Address
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought fourth on this continent, a newnation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are createdequal.” This is one of my favorite parts of the Gettysburg Address It speaks about howwhen facing unfair and unjustifiable treatment by a super power of that time who decidedto fight, to strive for freedom, justice, and equality to make possible a dream thatnumerous countries of the world strive and thirst for a dream of freedom. Listed in oneof the most important documents of the French it states that “So that one man may livewithout fear of another.” That is part of the American Dream: the dream of freedom,equality, to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. President Abraham Lincoln knewthis as well if not better than anyone else. He realized that as stated, “Now we areengaged in a great civil war, testing whether that or any nation so conceived and sodedicated, can long and endure.” President Lincoln knew that this battle was foughtunflaggingly for the preservation of those rights we enjoy. The fighting was a result of adifference of opinion on how those rights should be upheld. Tens of thousands gave their lives on those fields. President Lincoln knew that there was nothing available to compareto how those men consecrated that ground with their lives. They fought till their dying breath with freedom and liberty in their hearts, though they had differing opinions uponthat freedom and liberty. Lincoln knew what needed to be done next. He said, “Theworld will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget whatthey did here. It is for us the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the
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