English, The Gettysburg Address

Tracie Sanders

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Description

The Gettysburg Address was one of many speeches given by Abraham Lincoln. At the time, in 1863, both North and South were exhausted and every family hurt from the war. This one speech, out of many by Lincoln, had the power to reach into the future, 2023, and be known worlwide.

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

North American (US General American - GenAM)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
Address delivered at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg four score. 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 and that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a large sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate. We cannot 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 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 that 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. Abraham Lincoln, November 19th, 18 63.