A Measure of Devotion: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is more than iconic. It is impactful, profound, and inspiring. It is historically significant and worth not only repeating, but remembering. Only a few minutes long, embarrassingly brief by the standards for oratory of the day, Lincoln's speech evokes the most profound idea of the American founding, "that all men are created equal". This principle which is so essential to democratic society yet so hard for human nature to embrace, express, and experience in its fullest cannot be forgotten. In 1863, Lincoln called the nation to live up to this ideal, to not allow the to dead to have died in vain by quitting and failing to bring to realization for all the inherent equality that all humans posses in the eyes of God.