由美国的独立日想起：什么样的"國"值得"百姓"去庆?
只有每个人都占有"國"的某份之一的所有权,且私有财产平等神圣不可侵犯,即 “民有、民治、民享"(林肯语录)的民"國".才有值得高兴的前题.......
附:這是唯一一份林肯署名的版本，也是所知經其撰寫的最終版本：（以下為此本之中英對照）
| 先人立国已逾八十有七载。立国以自由，众生平等乃国本也。 Four score 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.
今逢内争，欲明以此为本之国能永存否。今聚战场，欲以方寸之地奉我勇士。勇士者，为国捐躯舍生取义，奉以此地安之，义举也。 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 battle field 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 nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 然复往广推，此地难奉，遑论祭或圣之。众勇士，或存或亡，皆战于此，已奉祭于斯，我等绵力不能增其圣以毫厘，或减以寸分。吾等今日所言，世人将漠之，记忆必短；然勇士事迹，量不致或忘丝毫。吾尚存者，当担所余大任；承烈士遗志，倍吾力于未竟之业；神佑吾国，当获自由之新生；民有、民治、民享之政必永续于世。 But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not 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.
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