Gettysburg Address Holds Significance at Essay

He stated, "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" (Lincoln). Again, Lincoln is appealing to an aspect that is larger than the present.

The ideals that Lincoln espouses are still significant today because they are victorious and they appeal to the most decent aspects of human nature. All war is dreadful and every soldier that loses a life because of war is a hero. This is as true today as it was when Lincoln dedicated the cemetery to the fallen. When he appeals to the people to be the best they can be and to "to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us," he is asking them to see a brighter future, knowing that the war will not last forever.This is a perspective that we should have today because it is positive and hopeful. In addition, Lincoln does let the opportunity to remind people of how great our nation is slip by this occasion. He tells them not to let the dead have "died in vain" (Lincoln) and he reminds them 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" (Lincoln). These sentiments are still applicable today because this nation will always be great as long as we hold to the same values of the framers of the Constitution.

Works Cited

The Gettysburg Address. U.S. Constitution Online. Information Retrieved November 03, 208. http://www.usconstitution.net/getty.html.....