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Mensagem por The Movie Buff Sex 01 Jul 2011, 22:43

Since Euclides posted Queen Elizabeth I's beautiful speech at Tilbury, I now invite you to read the equally famous Gettysburg Address, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863 at the dedication of a National Cemetery in honor of the soldiers killed in action in Gettysburg (one of the bloodiest battles in the American Civil War). It ranks among the most eloquent speeches in the English language, and it offers a different take on the theme of war, if compared to Elizabeth's speech.

Here it is:

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.



It should be noted that Lincoln's address was preceded by a long, tedious speech by a Representative from Massachusetts called Edward Everett, who spoke for over two hours! Lincoln spoke for no more than two minutes, but his words were so powerful that he carried the day. To this day American students learn Lincoln's Gettysburg Address by heart in schools all over the country; nobody remembers — or cares about — what Everett said that day.
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Mensagem por Euclides Sex 01 Jul 2011, 23:19

Hi, Movie Buff

glad to see you again amongst us. On the purpose of Lincoln's address I invite you to make us a summary on the american civil war, its causes and main facts, at O Túnel do Tempo. In Portuguese there, of course.

best regards

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