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LINCOLN'S SPEECH
AT
GETTYSBURG
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the pro-
position 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
We are met to dedicate a portion of it, as the final resting
that war
place of those who have given their lives that that nation might live. It
But, in a larger
is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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 power to add or to detract. The world will
very 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 de dicated
here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining be-
fore us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion--
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
-that the nation, shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom-and
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
"HONEST ABE" LINCOLN
perish from the earth
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