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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863
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on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
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Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
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upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and
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dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether
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that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . .
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can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
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We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place
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for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live.
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It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . .
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we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
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who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power
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to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember,
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what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
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It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished
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work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining
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before us. . .that from these honored dead we take increased devotion
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to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. . .
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that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. . .
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that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. . .
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and that government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . .
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shall not perish from this earth.
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