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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 |
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| the proposition that all men are created equal. |
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| Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that |
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| nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long |
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| endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have |
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| come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting |
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| place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might |
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| live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we 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, |
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| who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power |
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| to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember |
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| what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It |
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| is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the |
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| unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly |
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| advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great |
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| task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take |
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| increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last |
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| full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these |
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| dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, |
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| 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 |
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