Gettysburg Address

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"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 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."

Click Here to see and hear the PBS version of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address
Or listen to mine ....:-)

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