This should be read before every new congress. To keep our representatives grounded and to do for the people they represent not for their political parties or self interests.
Mr. Lincoln was wrong about one thing in this speech. "The world will not note nor long remember what was said here." I beg to differ, sir. It is my firm belief, my absolute conviction that the world will remember your words as long as the human race exists.
@@stevelukoski7152 And I third this emotion. Gives me goosebumps, and a tear to my eye watching this over and over. Especially a black man myself...Lincoln was one of a kind...can't thank him and all those soldiers enough..
Actually, there were HOURS of other speeches given that day, not a syllable of which is recalled by ANYONE. It is only these brief 'remarks' by the president that are remembered. But, as Lincoln said, the sacrifices of the tens of thousands of Americans who 'struggled' there at Gettysburg remain memorialized in both the soil and the souls of America.
Greetings from Jacksonville Florida USA. I believe that this rendition is the closest to Lincoln's delivery that I have ever heard. I particularly appreciated the actor's high-pitched voice, which reportedly is how his sounded. Well done.
try Charles Laughton in "Ruggles of Red Gap" (1935) This reading is very famous. Laughton did it when he went on the road, lecturing. The one good thing about this reading is that Lincoln's voice is high. Too many of the representations of Lincoln have him as a low voiced person. Loughton's pitch is about right.
Astonishing in its simplicity, brilliant in its capturing of the essence of a battlefield dedication, pointed in its call for further efforts to accomplish the goal.
I'm impressed they gave him a high pitched voice like the historical record described it. If I had heard an actor with a low timbre I would have been calling them out. Good on you Mister President.
Historically Lincoln received no applause during and after the speech. He felt that he had failed with his "few appropriate remarks". After the ceremony, Edward Everett, who railed for almost two hours before the President, came up to him and said that Lincoln said more in his 90 seconds than he had.
I would give anything for Daniel Day Lewis to have given this whole speech at Lincoln....... but this is about as damn close as anyone could hope for. Well done!
Hal Holbrook made his career giving this speech in something close to Lincoln’s voice. I’d like to have heard Orville Redenbacher or David Letterman do it.
@@zombieregime I remember one time Johnny Carson made a "Lincoln Joke" (probably early 1970s) and the audience gasped. Johnny looked around and said, "too soon?".
GGG grandfather was a drummer boy at Gettysburg. In a story passed down to his son then on to my Uncle. He claimed that the audience was holding their breath, vomiting, gagging. The smell of the dead, not too far away, was that bad.
Great performance and delivery of speech. Just like the "Lincoln" movie, this is the second time I feel Lincoln come alive. Daniel Day Lewis, in his acting and embodiment of the subject and person; remarkably gave the feeling and sense that Lincoln was walking around in our midst in that movie.
I have been to: his home in Springfield, IL The White House Gettysburg Battlefield Ford’s Theatre Petersen home across the street where he died, and The Lincoln Memorial He was a man that rose to the enormous need of the Nation - even at his own personal peril. I don’t think I have experienced a President in my lifetime who committed so much - and I remember Eisenhower when I was in Kindergarten.
I have been to the Lincoln Memorial. It was the most powerful of any I have visited in stirring an emotional response. Only one other comes close - the Hero Cities memorial at the wall of the Kremlin.
What hardship did the US have to overcome! Had it not been for Lincoln, the US would have ceased to be. How great was his leadership. God bless and long live America
Translation: FAM we go way back, our grand fam knew freedom was just a gift that keeps on giving, we cannot forget, it was paid in blood from both sides to give birth to a new form of humanity. not perfect but close compared to the rest of the world.
Abraham Lincoln should see his country now, today, this night....I wonder what he would say, or maybe think....would he be happy, or fall to his knees and pray in despair?
All the cemeteries that fill our fields today are testament . The " full measure of devotion " is recognized ! Freedom is NOT free. But to those who have paid the ultimate , having been your brethren in the struggle , i will continue to , with every breath GOD blesses me with , fight against the injustices that plague us. VOTE BLUE !!! 💙💙💙 Take Mr Lincolns words to heart .
Are you still here Mr. Lincoln? As a child, I would not have to ask that question. But, alas, as a mature man, with wife, and child, and fellow Americans suffering, I must know.
'Got that right! I'm tellin; ya. I have always read it off the page. I memorized the first paragraph when I was a kid. I have never heard it portrayed this way.
GW, TJ, AJ, TR, FR, JK. What makes Lincoln the greatest? That he kept the Union together, that he freed the successionist state slaves, that he finally realized Grant could brutally win the war? Challenge: what makes Lincoln the greatest president?
@@juliosoto6566 Lol, good funny answer to an ignorant question. Obviously, Lincoln was the greatest because his vision of America and his absolute view of justice & righteousness for all men is slowly, slowly, slowly toppling the old oppressive ways of thinking and doing things......I might not get there with you, but we as a people shall overcome.
@@USMC-cv5sd I'm guessing I could've said that he got rid of a systemic infection in society that resulted in the cultivation of the world's greatest economy. Sure, slavery would've ended eventually without interference. Much bloodshed was spent, but I'd argue that even a year or 2 more without the ratification of the 13th would've had massive negative impacts on the prosperity of the nation. It's always a rat race and the fastest way forward was unfortunately with war.
@juliosoto6566 That's false revisionist history. The South was clearly trying to expand slavery into Latin America , like they did in Texas when slavery was illegal under Mexico. /he South tried to expand slavery into New Mexico and other territories. After the Civil War, the South enslaved 700,000 to 800,000 African Americans through those vagrancy laws. Watch the whole video, SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME. The South enslaved African Americans up to December 8th, 1941. After Pearl Harbor was attacked, FDR signed an executive order to end that slavery so as not to look bad morally to Japan or the rest of the world. THIS IS DOCUMENTED FACTS !! Enslaved African Americans after the Civil War worked as slaves to build the brick streets in the South and work for the steel companies. AND NO THESE WEREN'T REAL CRIMINALS, but the South loved the 13th Amendment because it allowed slavery of prisoners. The South made criminals out of African Americans, and a few others who obviously were not criminals. Teddy Roosevelt actually tried to end this enslavement first and got some convictions, but America didn't have the moral will to end it. SO SLAVERY WAS NOT GOING TO END WITHOUT A CIVIL WAR BECAUSE IT NEVER ENDED WITH A CIVIL WAR. HERE ARE THE FACTS . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UcCxsLDma2o.htmlsi=TFfR4CkMI8CUKZd9ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UcCxsLDma2o.htmlsi=TFfR4CkMI8CUKZd9 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KPlk41mNDuM.htmlsi=qQQ_wRUu7KEcGZRk
To have scripted this speech himself , Lincoln really rivals Shakespeare. An unparalleled grasp of the English language. I fear that a majority of TODAY’s Americans actually could not explain just what Lincoln was saying .
I'm not American but I will say this it is a long time since the US has had a capable President like Abraham Lincoln the last one who was on that level was probably Franklin Delenore Rosevelt and he died in 1945 .The US ever since FDR's death has had more and more mediocre President's. Abraham Lincoln as well as been a great speaker was also a skilled politician sadly his life was cut short by that idiot Booth if Lincoln hadn't been assinated by Booth and say Lincoln went on to do a second term then the US likely have been a slightly better place people like Johnson who I believe succeeded Lincoln may not have become President and Grant may not have become President either both Johnson and Grant if I'm correct were both tainted by corruption no doubt the policies used by Lincoln's immediate successors Johnson and later Grant were probably a continuation of some of Lincoln's policies the thing is if that idiot Booth hadn't done what he did then Lincoln would have implemented his policies over a second term would have done it more skilfully with better results for the American people in the long run but as we all know Lincoln's life was sadly cut short by a idiot with derringer pistol.
Rivaling Shakespeare is a stretch. I'd say most Americans will understand what was said after listening/reading the address just once (most definitely the vast majority of college educated peers). This is my favorite speech of all time. That said, it has little to do with Lincolns mastery of the language (there were other politicians in that time much stronger in rhetoric) and more to do with the circumstance.
"We pass over the silly remarks of the President. For the credit of the nation we are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall be no more repeated or thought of." Editorial, "Patriot and Union," Harrisburg, PA 11/24/1863
In 2013, they then printed the following: "Seven score and ten years ago, the forefathers of this media institution brought forth to its audience a judgment so flawed, so tainted by hubris, so lacking in the perspective history would bring, that it cannot remain unaddressed in our archives. "We write today in reconsideration of 'The Gettysburg Address,' delivered by then-President Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the greatest conflict seen on American soil. Our predecessors, perhaps under the influence of partisanship, or of strong drink, as was common in the profession at the time, called President Lincoln's words 'silly remarks,' deserving 'a veil of oblivion,' apparently believing it an indifferent and altogether ordinary message, unremarkable in eloquence and uninspiring in its brevity. "In the fullness of time, we have come to a different conclusion. No mere utterance, then or now, could do justice to the soaring heights of language Mr. Lincoln reached that day. By today's words alone, we cannot exalt, we cannot hallow, we cannot venerate this sacred text, for a grateful nation long ago came to view those words with reverence, without guidance from this chagrined member of the mainstream media. "The world will little note nor long remember our emendation of this institution's record - but we must do as conscience demands: "In the editorial about President Abraham Lincoln's speech delivered Nov. 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, the Patriot & Union failed to recognize its momentous importance, timeless eloquence, and lasting significance. The Patriot-News regrets the error."
Edward Everett Hale, considered one of the great orators of the 19th century. After Lincoln's speech, Hale told Lincoln that he got closer to the point of the event in two minutes than Hale did in his two-hour speech.
@@DonaldWMeyers-dwm Yes, and only those steeped in US history know his name, and almost no one knows what he said. At this time manty thought Presidents Lincoln's speech was a failure, but today we know how important this speech was.
Our greatest President by far, regardless what Trump says. Lincoln was so hated by many both north and south. That hatred was personified in Booth. Why are the greatest of men that fight for human dignity always taken down by hatred? MLK, Gandhi, Chávez, Lincoln, Christ. This hatred is filling our goverment. Don't vote for hate anymore.
@@roccodonato6236 Maybe your teachers told you wrong in school. Or maybe you just substituted the word in your mind and it got stuck there. Our memories are imperfect.
Little did anyone there know that it would take another 150 years for the nation to finally dissolve. All those lives were in vain. We are about to become separated again and this time it’s going to be permanent, and based on ideology.
"The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to one graceful and irresistible gesture...But let us not forget that it is oratory, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it! Put it into the cold words of everyday! The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination - “that government of the people, by the people, for the people,” should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves." - H. L. Mencken, "Prejudices: Third Series" (1922)
Those slaver traitors tried to cut the nation asunder because they had lost an election and were afraid to lose them again, so they wanted to let the majority of the Americans apart from them. There is no self-determination built in denying the results of democracy to perpetuate the enslavement of human beings.
Refer to Daniel Webster's 2d Reply to Hayne speech, 1830. Mencken could not have not known it, which makes his comment at best viciously disingenuous, at worst stupidly ignorant. The attribution of motive to Confederate soldiers is just self-serving, racist and anachronistic, revisionism. And it would seem that from Mencken's time it's being sold now to a third or fourth generation of suckers. The remedy is to do little research, learn, and think for yourself!
@@veramae4098 No; he was absolutely right. Lincoln started a war that ended the great experiment in republican government and created the vast central tyranny that rules over the States now. And black men are more enslaved today than ever, having lost their nobility and abandoned the God of their salvation.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the most iconic and incredible actors to ever grace the silver screen, but he was miscast in this movie for one very stark reason---he does not have the voice of Abraham Lincoln. We, of course, have never heard Lincoln, but Day-Lewis' attempt at capturing 'the voice' of the American President the most revered and renowned across the world fails miserably. In this film, Day-Lewis sounds more like a subordinate than Abraham Lincoln would have sounded. It's only an opinion...
Where is the Lincoln among us? Where is the Theodore Roosevelt to drive Trump and the 1% merchant class back into service to this nation not in control of it?
Look to the members of the MAGA, Patriot, and America First Parties. Look to those the biden regime oppresses with the nazisfied federal agencies. Look to those vilified by the corporate media machine.
He was and is a GIANT..an orator of excellence...a great soul. But...he would be bitterly ashamed of the the state of the GOP now. Time for those who follow this man's resolve to stand up against the MAGA faction and hold up to the truths of the constitution...and democracy.
@@jamesdiaz793 he still didn't say anything about slavery. All men being equal was not inclusive. When it comes to ignorance I'll leave that up to people like you, there are plenty of you !
Technically, you are correct. It was a fight for something much greater than slavery abolition. It was a fight for same sex marriage, abortion rights, women's rights to vote, the use of nuclear weapons, and whether Google/Microsoft should continue doing ai research. On a serious note. He was fighting for freedom. It wasn't about The Union. It wasn't about slavery. Plain own liberty. But if on an exam they ask you, "What did Lincoln fight for?" A) Preservation of the Union B) Abolition of Slavery The correct answer is B.
@@juliosoto6566 I'm not correct on a technicality, I'm simply correct. In Lincoln's inaugural address delivered on March 4, 1861 he stated; He wasn't interested in ending slavery wherever it existed, it was about preserving the Union. Now that is a matter of historical record and contradicts your A and B statement.
@@robertnicholson1409 In the 2nd inaugural he explained otherwise lol. You are right though. At FIRST it was just about Union preservation. His "thought process" changed sometime after the Gettysburg Address.
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