#FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO TEXT MESSAGES FULL#
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 the that cause for which they here gave gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 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.
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.īut in a larger sense we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow this ground. We are now have come to dedicate a portion of it as the a final resting place of for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. We are met here on a great battle field of that war. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. Lincoln gave the speech at the dedication of a cemetery for the soldiers who had died during the Battle of Gettysburg.įour 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.
President Abraham Lincoln gave his most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address, on November 19, 1863.
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