Gettysburg Address

Four score 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 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. We are met on a great battle-field of that war We honor their lives with our deeds, not our words A nation united, where freedom must be heard From four score and seven, the legacy stands In the name of equality, we join our nations hands We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place 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 can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. Or detract We are met on a great battle-field We honor their lives with our deeds, not our words A nation united, where freedom must be heard From four score and seven, the legacy stands In the name of equality, in the name of equality, we join our nations hands 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