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- Fourscore and seven years ago, our forefathers 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 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 their 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, and
- for the people, shall not perish from this earth.
-
- Fourscore and seven years ago, our forefathers 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 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 their 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, and
- for the people, shall not perish from this earth.
-
- Fourscore and seven years ago, our forefathers 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 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 their 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, and
- for the people, shall not perish from this earth.
-