The world will little note nor long remember what you say here but it can never forget what they did here who said this?

Answer 1

You have misquoted Mr. Lincoln, Abraham, that is. He said, "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here." He was speaking at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863 just after the Union had won the battle of Gettysburg. This battle took place from July 1, 1863 through July 3, 1863 and is seen as the turning point of the war. Union Gereal Meade and his forces defeated Robert E Lee and his forces. 51,000 men lost their lives in the process. It is they to whom Lincoln refers when he says, "it (the world) can never forget what they did here." By saying what he says, Lincoln is redefining the purpose of the War. Here is his entire speech. "Fourscore 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 battlefield 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 cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot 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."

Answer 2

It was Abraham Lincoln This is a slight misquotation from the Gettysburg Address. It should be "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here". Referring to the Union victory at Gettysburg and framing it as pivotal in the protection of the then still very young American democratic experiment