What parallels are there between Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the state of the Agile movement's union? Lincoln was a primary figure at the dedication of Soldiers' National Cemetery , in Gettysburg. He did not wish to upstage the keynote speaker, Edward Everett , and so summarized in 2 minutes the principle of human equality as defined by the Declaration of Independence and the Civil War. Do you remember, the keynote speech? Few people do. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address : 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 nat...