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He was born in Kentucky,
raised in Indiana,
and lived
in Illinois.
And this is what he said.
This is what Abe Lincoln said.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty,
and we must rise to the occasion.
As our case is new,
so we must think and act anew.
We must disenthrall ourselves,
and then we shall save our country.
When standing erect,
he was six feet,
four inches tall,
and this is what he said.
He said,
it is the eternal struggle between two principles,
right and wrong, throughout the world.
It is the same spirit that says,
you toil and work
and earn bread,
and I'll eat it,
no matter in what shape it comes.
Whether from the mouth of a king who seeks
to bestride the people of his own nation,
and therefore the fruit of their labor,
or from one race of man as an apology for enslaving another race.
It is the same tyrannical principle.
Lincoln was a quiet man.
Abe Lincoln was a quiet and melancholy man.
But when he spoke of democracy,
this is what he said.
He said,
as I would not be a slave,
so I would not be a master.
This expresses my idea of democracy.
Whether difference from this to the
extent of the difference is no democracy.
Abraham Lincoln,
16th President of these United States,
is everlasting in the memory of his countrymen.
For
on the battleground at Gettysburg,
this is what he said.
He said 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,
and 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.