Note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget It far above our poor power to add or detract. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated But, in a larger sense, we cannotĭedicate, we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. It is altogether fittingĪnd proper that we should do this. Gave their lives, that that nation might live. We have come to dedicateĪ portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here WeĪre met on a great battle-field of that war. Or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathersīrought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty,Īnd dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. President Lincoln delivered the 272 word Gettysburg Address on Novemberġ9, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Please enable Javascript in your browser preferences, or consider using the latest version of Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Internet Explorer, or Safari. Attention: Your web browser currently has JavaScript disabled or does not support JavaScript, so this website will NOT function and/or display as intended.
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