Perhaps the greatest president of the United States of America would have turned 200 years old.
Abraham Lincoln led the costliest war in U.S. history in which" brother against brother "fought as put by a former school book of this blog. More than 620 000 soldiers died before the Union saved and slavery was ended in the United States. Abraham Lincoln did, however, that a victory by the Northern States in this conflict would mean more: A statement that the experiment that almost a hundred years had been previously started - liberal democracy - can succeed. This awareness made from Lincoln's view, a victory in the civil war is essential.
example, some U.S. presidents after him also have to fight wars. Many of them have a particularly difficult time thought Lincoln and its challenges during the civil war, what their situation was no longer seem quite so black. Lincoln's perseverance, determination and courage, were all for it - whether Wilson, FDR or Bush - an example. When Lincoln was asked again how he would deal with all the crises in front of him, he said there was simply no alternative but "to have let up."
The Lincoln Memorial is impressive for any visitor to Washington. The inscription says there that the memory is preserved in him not only there but also in the hearts of every American forever. His people said to this day that Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, has done nothing less than to save the country.
It is often the right words at the right time, people such as Abraham Lincoln can protrude. His famous Gettysburg Address, which every American school child learn by heart must have 272 words at the right time. In just a few minutes, he expressed in 10 sets out everything there was to say the Civil War.
to Lincoln to honor his 200th Birthday, these words are repeated here once again.
"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 that. We are met on a great battle-field of 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. "