The Mother of All Windows Books/CD-MOM.iso/cd_mom/workmodl/bcoder/gettysbg.txt

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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, test-
ing 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 have given 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 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 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."