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
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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 all together fitting
and proper that we should do this
but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate
we cannot consecrate we cannot
hallow this ground
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the brave men living and dead
who struggled here have consecrated it
far
above our poor power to add or detract
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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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