Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address |
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On July 1-3, 1863 at Gettysburg in Pennslvania was the turning point of the Civl War. This battle was most famous and most important battle of the deadliest war on American soil. On the 19th of November 1863, President Lincoln delivered these immortal words at the dedication of the cemetary at Gettysburg. Listen to what the words say! |
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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 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 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. - Abraham Lincoln |
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