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(soft expectant music) (soft expectant music continues) (soft expectant music continues) (soft expectant music continues) (soft expectant music continues) (soft expectant music continues) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) - "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history," that is what he said.

That is what Abraham Lincoln said, "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

We, of this Congress, and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.

No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us.

The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor the latest generation.

We, even we, here hold the power and bear the responsibility."

(gentle music) (gentle uplifting music) (gentle uplifting music continues) (gentle music) (gentle music continues) He was born in Kentucky, raised in Indiana, and lived in Illinois, and this is what he said.

This is what Abe Lincoln said, (gentle music) "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion as our case is new.

So we must think anew and act anew.

(gentle music continues) We must disenthrall ourselves and then we will save our country."

(gentle triumphant music) (gentle triumphant music continues) When standing erect, he was six feet four inches tall, and this is what he said.

He said, "It is the internal struggle between two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world.

It is the same spirit that says, you toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it, no matter in what shape it comes.

Whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race.

It is the same tyrannical principle."

(gentle triumphant music) (gentle triumphant music continues) (gentle music) (gentle music continues) (gentle music continues) (gentle music continues) Lincoln was a quiet man.

Abe Lincoln was a quiet and melancholy man, but when he spoke of democracy, this is what he said.

He said, "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.

This expresses my idea of democracy.

Whatever differs from this to the extent of the difference is no democracy."

(gentle triumphant music) (gentle triumphant music continues) (gentle triumphant music continues) (gentle triumphant music continues) (gentle triumphant music continues) (gentle music) (gentle music continues) Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of these united states is everlasting in the memory of his countrymen.

(gentle music continues) On the battleground at Gettysburg, this is what he said.

(gentle music) He said, "That from these honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

That we are here are highly resolved, that these dead shall not have died in vain, and that this nation under God shall have new birth of freedom.

And that the government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the Earth.

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