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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Text

Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 at the dedication ceremony for the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In just over two minutes, Lincoln framed the Civil War as a struggle to determine whether the United States, as founded on the principles of equality, could long endure. He honored those who fought and died at Gettysburg by dedicating the nation to continuing and advancing the unfinished work for which they fought - the preservation of the United States as a nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Text

Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 at the dedication ceremony for the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In just over two minutes, Lincoln framed the Civil War as a struggle to determine whether the United States, as founded on the principles of equality, could long endure. He honored those who fought and died at Gettysburg by dedicating the nation to continuing and advancing the unfinished work for which they fought - the preservation of the United States as a nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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\Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, Speech Text

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, GETTYSBURG ADDRESS (19 NOVEMBER 1863)


[1] 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.
[2] 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 battle-field 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.
[3] But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallowthis 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.

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