The 
Gettysburg Address

November 19th, 1863

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. 

A. Lincoln

The End

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