Lincoln's Gettysburg Address offers inspiring message for our cancel culture times

Abraham Lincoln got one thing very wrong on Nov. 19, 1863, while dedicating a new military cemetery at Gettysburg, when he said the world "will little note, nor long remember what we say here."

Lincoln knew that if the country fell apart, the great experiment in freedom and self-rule would likely fail. 

The two-minute address came at a time when the North had grown weary of war. Lincoln used his brief remarks to explain why the Union must continue the fight.