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The Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
By: (1809-1865)

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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 this 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 this earth.


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Reviews (Rated: 3 Stars - 2 reviews)

Reviewer: - October 21, 2018
Subject: words from a criminal & liar
Gov. of, by & for the people as well as freedom was busy being crushed by the Union army. The South just wanted away from a greedy and despotic North. Well, here it is 155 years later: our criminal Government is a direct descendent of Dishonest Abe's government: despotic at home and oppressive abroad. Most of what the great men of the South predicted would happen (society, Government, relations) before the war has happened and can be seen today.
Reviewer: - March 11, 2015
Subject: Excellent
Words to be always remembered. Well read.


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