Posted on 12/05/2020 8:08:15 AM PST by voveo
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 to the latest generation. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. (Annual Message to Congress [since the twentieth century, State of the Union], December 1, 1862)
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. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country. (Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862)
It is the eternal 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. (Lincoln–Douglas debates, October 15, 1858)
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. (Unknown, though in Lincoln's Collected Works)
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, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. (Gettysburg Address)
I remember hearing that years ago. Charlton Heston is outstanding. Thanks.
I have that Heston recording. It is one of my favorites. I think my # 1 version would be the one with Gregory Peck narrating and Zubin Mehta conducting. Peck’s reading is restrained, as though he was asked to speak at a memorial honoring Lincoln. Most of the others I have heard are way too pompous and bombastic. IMO Peck and Heston are the best.
Copland: A Lincoln Portrait: A Lincoln Portrait
Copland: A Lincoln Portrait: A Lincoln Portrait ^ | Lincoln, Copeland
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So, in summary, Copland: A Lincoln Portrait: A Lincoln Portrait
Is that about right?
Or maybe Copeland, not Copland?
But still a Lincoln Portrait, a Lincoln Portrait?
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