 lincoln says very famously and beautifully um uh in in a speech and i'll recount that if i've got one minute you do july the 10th 1858 closest thing to an actual fourth of july speech lincoln ever gave he uh it's the form it's the most beautiful of all such speeches in my opinion and he starts out the way they always start out my what a great country this is and look how wonderful it is and look how big it's become and look how proud we are of it what an achievement