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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on
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this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
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proposition that all men are created equal.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
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nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
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We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to
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dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those
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who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is
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altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not
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consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men living
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and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor
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power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long
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remember, what we say here, but it will never forget what they did
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here. It is for this the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the
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unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
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advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
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remaining before us -- that from thse honored dead we take increased
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devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
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devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have
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died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
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freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the
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people, shall not perish from the earth.
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