Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863

On this day in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysbury, PA, the site of one of the most devastating and important battles of the Civil War and delivered some brief remarks now known as the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln followed a 2 hour stemwinder by a professional speaker whose words have faded away, but Lincoln's words are remembered and still applicable today (h/t The Corner):

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
other nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a
great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a
final resting place for those who here died that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we can not
hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have con-
secrated 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 have not 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.

- Abraham Lincoln
("The Gettysburg Address," 19 November 1863)

Feel free to compare these words to anything you're hearing from the Democrats today.