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The Gettysburg Address
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.
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 that nation might
live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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 great 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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