ABRAHAM LINCOLN, “GETTYSBURG ADDRESS" (19 NOVEMBER 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 battle-field 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 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."
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i don’t know if this is history or english but i put english because it’s my english class.
