I made this a few years ago after I saw the things that he had faced.  I also found out that when it came time to find a speaker for the Gettysburg Memorial christening, they didn’t want to use the President.  They felt he couldn’t pull off such an event, since he was not that great of an orator.  They searched high and low and found a man who’s name was synonymous for great speeches.  He agreed to come.  The place was packed (15,000 or more) and the great orator got up and delivered a two-hour long speech that would make almost any one cry because of its eloquence.  Then the President got up and unfolded a small card in which he had made a short recitation.  It went like this:

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.

This is the speech and the words that rang out not only that day, but for all these years of history.  No one really remembers the words, or the man who was the great orator, only the words of a humble servant who stepped in.