on this continent,This is a speech I have longed respected and feel it is true for those seeking freedom anywhere in the world.
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 battle-field 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 can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not 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.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated
Notice the bolded words and explain to me how the Ukraine is covered by those words? Or Crimea?
South America would be included and their constitutions should read the same as ours does (at least) That is where the words apply to, it was not an invitation to liberate the world of slavery or anything else.
As for patriotism I'm not in contact with any Russians or anybody from Crimea or the Ukraine, you are though, down to the level you find the need to mention what's I'm saying and getting replies. I'm touched that I'm that big of a thorn to you but from the information I have Russia is not on the attack, they are acting in a defensive move, a pretty decisive defensive move if the would list was to be employed. The West wants to run the place go ahead and when the place is stable from random snipers then the bridge will be reopened. ( by then there might be a canal for heavy ships in place as cargo exports to places like Syria will increase if the ICC awards damages to them because of some hi-res documentation that shows the uprising was actually a covert act of war and since they lost they get to pick up the bank tab for both sides. The Saudis have oil and the UN will have to take over the meter readings, hope they are up to the tasks. ) Isn't that how you break somebody of a bad habit? One hard smack and it's a done deal, for them and for any witnesses.
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