Abraham
Lincoln's
Gettysburg
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 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 can not dedicate -
we can not consectrate -
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.