Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years after the founding of a new nation on this continent, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, the country was engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, could long endure. On a great battlefield of that war, a portion of the field was being dedicated as a final resting place for those who gave their lives so that the nation might live. Yet the ground had already been consecrated beyond any added human power by the brave men, living and dead, who struggled there. The living were called instead to dedicate themselves to the unfinished work advanced by those who fought, to take increased devotion from the honored dead, to resolve that the dead had not died in vain, that the nation under God would have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, would not perish from the earth.

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