“Four score and seven years ago…” Today marks the 162nd anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address. On November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Pennsylvania. His remarks lasted barely two minutes and contained only 272 words yet they are widely regarded as one of the most consequential speeches in American history. “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 prope...