"Four score and
years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in
, 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
. 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 all together fitting and proper that we should do this.
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not
- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have
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.
, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work for which they who fought here have thus far
. 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
- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a
- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
."
