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- Four score 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 here on
- a great battle-field of that war.
- We have come to dedicate a portion
- of it 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 can not
- dedicate - we can not 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 can never forget what
- they did here. It is for us, the
- living, rather to be dedicated here
- to the unfinished work which they
- have, thus far, so nobly carried
- on. 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 here gave the last
- full measure of devotion - that we
- here highly resolve that these dead
- shall not have died in vain; that
- this nation shall have a new birth
- of freedom; and that this
- government of the people,
- by the people,
- for the people,
- shall not perish from the earth.
-