First time as tragedy, second time as self-puffing grandiosity

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
—Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863

Now the world will watch and remember what we do here—what we do with this moment.
—Barack Obama, Berlin, Germany, July 24, 2008

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 24, 2008 08:50 PM | Send