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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a

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new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men

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are created equal.

| Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this  |

| continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to   |

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any

| the proposition that all men are created equal.                   |

nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great

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battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as

| Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that     |

a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation

| nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long     |

might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

| endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have   |

| come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting      |

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not

| place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might  |

hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have

| live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. |

consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will

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little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what

| But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-|

they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the

| we can not hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead,    |

unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It

| who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power |

is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before

| to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember  |

us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for

| what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It  |

which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve

| is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the         |

that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall

| unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly |

have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people,

| advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great   |

for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

| task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take     |

| increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last     |