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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRand Paul's latest column...
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.
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Rand Paul's latest column... (Original Post)
Drunken Irishman
Nov 2013
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pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)1. To be fair to Paul, he wrote that in a galaxy far, far away
And he only did it because we can't handle the truth. As he once said so brilliantly, "Forget it, Jake; it's Chinatown."
dchill
(38,471 posts)2. Don't forget these other Rand Paul nuggets...
"Do not go gentle into that good night'"
"Where there's a will, there's a way."
"I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
I just think it's time to give the man his due...
I really, really do.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)3. Wow. Just wow.
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as he did in two minutes.
trusty elf
(7,385 posts)4. Paul: "Do I have to be in detention for the rest of my career?"
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B Calm
(28,762 posts)5. Rand Paul is an excellent speech writer!
LOL
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)6. His 'I have a dream' speech was magnificent!