Lincoln's Gettysburg Address dated November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
	Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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 battlefield 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 cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . . we  cannot 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.