Gettysburg Address

[Eva Elisabeth]

"When I was your age, why I walked a dozen miles to school, uphill each way" - is this what you are thinking of?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

All joking aside, wherever some words came from, and whatever well intentioned educators and the press wanted to make out of Lincoln - the way Lincoln put the ingredients together to compose his own message and conclusion to me is simply intriguing, moving, clear, powerful, and unique, an effect which the sources of the few borrowings do not show on me (and I haven't had such educators - and heroes occurred only in ancient mythology -, thus have come to find this on my very own).

He put together and said the right words at the right time, whether from the Bible or former ideas (and it doesn't always make sense to frantically seek to reinvent the wheel or re-word it) - I don't doubt they 100% represented what he felt.