Archive for July 4th, 2009

On Independence Day I often think of Lincoln’s speech dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg. Brief by any standard, Lincoln’s words derive their potency not from prose but from the substance of what Lincoln was affirming, in particular the final paragraph. “But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate [...]


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