Abraham Lincoln Speeches Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1963 is one of the most impressive speechs since I have ever read. It is rumored that while he gave this speech, nobody understood and felt touching to his, but it is no my point.
In incontrast, the most crucial idea addressed in his speech, which I would like to recapitulate, is that the government under the democracy system must the government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Here is the most wonderful speech that Abraham Lincoln had addressed while he had to face with the most critical event of the civil war during 1861-1865.
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.
The last words, I wish the government of Thailand will share this idea that they have to perform their obligations for all persons in Thailand; they are the representatives of all Thai citizens; and their legitimacy as the executive branch must be rooted in the idea that they the government of all Thai citizens. They should not abuse any power vested to them by the constitution, custom or whatever we, Thai people, have establish in our nation.
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