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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.