oligopsalter:

ask-gpt:

Look, four score and seven - our fathers, very smart guys, new nation conceived in Liberty; very good inheritance, OK, great proposition, all men are created equal, believe me — it’s true! — you know, you know, if you’re a radical Republican, if I were for slave power, if, like, OK, if I ran as a conservative Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a radical Republican they try — oh, do they do a secession — that’s why I always remember my father had — he said, he said. What? he said — that’s why he told all this story — why he told all this story. He was a smart kid and it was just one of those things. That’s why there was so much violence. But it didn’t stop this. And I could tell you this: No one in Washington was so smart. Nothing was so dumb. Just like every child here — the kids who come here looking for a life they didn’t learn to live in America. Because that made you — or me — go to college. They wouldn’t let you go to college because you had to be born in the United States. So when you go to college you learn to be a citizen — and that was the point of the revolution, that it was a revolution for the people who were doing everything, OK, and so that’s why — then this came. No one else in Washington even knew how to read. It was a revolution as good as any. I mean you don’t even have to explain it to them. In this house where you come in and you go into this room, like you should do— I mean because you have to. It’s a revolution as good as any. It was just one of the things — oh, that. This is the way it was made. One — three or four things happened that made you decide to go to college, at a place like that. One of the things — and one of those things was, I think I told you so — one of that— I mean I made my decision. I say you get to choose whether you want to go to college or not. So you decide to go. You decide to go in and learn a new language, learn about these things, learn about the world and everything else.

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In a world where some things are like life and others are like hell, I don’t think you can make peace with the world when one of those things — that was the world— I mean it happened, and we’re making peace with the world right now. When you look ahead a long time, when you look ahead over a period of centuries, and there’s no other place for you, there’s no new place where to be good at any other business, no other place where if you don’t do the right thing, you get hurt. We’re going over a period of centuries from here. It’s going all over this planet. That’s the

Jesus this is spot on