Nov 10, 2013

Gettyburg Address

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 battle-field 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 can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not 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.



  1. The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

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    The Gettysburg Address. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863. On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner commented on what is now considered the ...

  2. Gettysburg Address - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the ...
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  4. Avalon Project - Gettysburg Address

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  5. Gettysburg Address - Exhibitions - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress)

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    Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln was the second speaker on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg.

  6. Our Documents - Gettysburg Address (1863)

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    Citation: Abraham Lincoln, Draft of the Gettysburg Address: Nicolay Copy, November 1863; Series 3, General Correspondence, 1837-1897; The Abraham ...

  7. Our Documents - Transcript of Gettysburg Address (1863)

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  8. The Gettysburg Address — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and ...

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    The Gettysburg Address, delivered by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, is one of the classic speeches in American history.

  9. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address - YouTube

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  10. Gettysburg Address (work by Lincoln) -- Encyclopedia Britannica

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    World-famous speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication (Nov. 19, 1863) of the National Cemetery atGettysburg, Pa., the site of one of ...
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  12. The Words That Remade America

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    Though we call Lincoln's text the Gettysburg Address, that title clearly belongs to Everett. Lincoln's contribution, labeled “remarks,” was intended to make the dedication formal (somewhat like ...

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