ADDRESS
AT GETTYSBURG
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 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 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 to 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.
Keith and Marnie Elliott’s “REMEDY” Site
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