anyone knows what the shortest speech Abrahan Lincoln delivered?

Question

We have a reseach assignment about speeches I've preferred to feature Lincoln's......

Answer 1

the getty'sburg address is abe lincoln's shortest speech (246 words), it lasted 2 minutes and 22 seconds...he actually delivered this speech on november 19, 1863 at a battlefield in gettysburg, philadelphia...the battle was hard fought and casualty ridden.

this speech is now inscribed at the lincoln's memorial in DC.

here is the full text:

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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 battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. 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 hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.

It is rather for us, the living, to stand here, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, 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."

the most famous part of the speech is, "the government of the peopel - by the people - for the people."

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Answer 2

Yes, the interesting part is "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" except that it doesn't actually describe what our government was intended to be.

We were never meant to be a government "of" the people. We were meant to be Free. Lincoln never understood that, otherwise he'd have never ordered the illegal invasion of Virginia in the first place.

Answer 3

Public? Gettysburg Address I believe.

Answer 4

What's the point in asking the same question twice? One time will do the same job.

Answer 5

are you happy.