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Braham Incoln: Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 at the dedication ceremony for the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In the address, Lincoln frames the Civil War as a test of whether the United States, "conceived in liberty" could endure. Lincoln dedicates the battlefield cemetery to honor those who died fighting to preserve the Union and democracy. He calls on the living to continue their efforts to establish a new birth of freedom and ensure the survival of the nation.

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Braham Incoln: Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 at the dedication ceremony for the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In the address, Lincoln frames the Civil War as a test of whether the United States, "conceived in liberty" could endure. Lincoln dedicates the battlefield cemetery to honor those who died fighting to preserve the Union and democracy. He calls on the living to continue their efforts to establish a new birth of freedom and ensure the survival of the nation.

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Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg Address
Delivered 19 November 1863

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.
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 restingplace for those who here gave their lives that that 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 the
earth.

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