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AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Fourscore 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 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 the 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 cannot 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.