I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.


Letter to Abraham Lincoln on his Gettysburg Address (20 November 1863).


I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours, as you did in two minutes.