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...
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