Citizen

The rancorous debates  will not end with the election.  They have become distasteful in their incivility.  So much so that  I feel we collectively ought to be taken out and be given a taste of our history.  The awful din will not cease until some of us insist that it be silenced.  Our inability to see through differences and achieve compromise will be a problem. Our respect for individual rights, responsibilities and  our command of the principles of fairness will be sorely testeed in the next four years, given the ripening divisiveness we live with.  But we must learn and learn quickly.  Will our leaders have the statemanship needed ?  Of that I have grave doubts, but we need to keep pushing in that direction.

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. We are met on a great battlefield of that 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 cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot 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.

I pray that Our Nation and our government of the people, by the people , for the people can once again have a place on this earth.  And our Nation come to understand that we are a Nation founded Under God which throughout our history has taken guidance from divine province. As strange as that may seem to some, it is historically accurate.  Hopefully, we will not lose sight of that ideal