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LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon 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 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 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, and for the peole,
shall not perish from the earth.