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