Presidents Day is a federal holiday in the U.S. celebrated on the third Monday of February each year. The day recognizes George Washington’s birthday, as well as honors the history of the American presidency and all of those who have served as our nation’s leader. RELATED: Presidents Day 2023: What’s open, closed and where to find dealsFrom Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to Ronald Reagan’s "tear down this wall" speech more than a century later, here are some famous presidential remarks of the past.The two-minute speech was given by President Abraham Lincoln following the Battle of Gettysburg during a cemetery dedication for the Union war dead on Nov.
19, 1983. While he wasn’t even the main speaker for the event, Lincoln’s brief message on a "new birth of freedom" has come to be regarded as one of the most eloquent and memorable speeches in U.S.
history. "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," Lincoln said, in part.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a well-known speech to a joint session of Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, a day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and led to the U.S.