The Gettysburg Address
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Thursday, November 19th 18 63. In front of estimated 15,000 Spectators, President Abraham Lincoln dedicated a new Soldiers National Cemetery. Get his birth. In a few moments, he would deliver words that he hopes that were got the union through the war and start the process of healing. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers put forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we're engaged in a great civil War, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure were 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 add hollow 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 no long. Remember what we say here but we 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 fought the so far nobody 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. And that we highly resolve that these dead should not have died in vain, that this nation under God should have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people for the people should not perish from Earth.