The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USAFour score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forthupon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, anddedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whetherthat 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 placefor 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 powerto add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember,what we say here, but it can never forget what they d