Fourscoreandsevenyearsago,ourfathersbroughtforthuponthiscontinentanewNation,conceivedinLiberty,anddedicatedtothepropositionthatallmenarecreatedequal.Now,weareengagedinagreatCivilWar,testingwhetherthatNation,oranynationsoconceivedandsodedicated,canlongendure.Wearemetonagreatbattlefieldofthatwar.Weheetodedicateaportionofthatfieldasa

finalresting-placeforthosewhogetheirlivesthatNationmightlive.Itisaltogetherfittingandproperthatweshoulddothis.But,inalargersee,wecaotdedicate,wecaotcoecrate,wecaotha

llowthisground.Thebremen,livinganddead,whostruggledhere,hecoecrateditfaraboveourpowertoaddordetract.Theworldwilllittlenotenorlongrememberwhatwesayhere,butitcanneverfetwhattheydidhere.Itisforus,theliving,rathertobededicatedtothegreattaskremainingbeforeuthatfromthesehonoreddead,wetakeincreaseddevotiontothatcauseforwhichtheygethelastfullmeasureofdevotiothatthisNation,underGOD,shallheanewbirthoffreedom;andthatgovernmentofthePeoplebythePeopleandforthePeopleshallnotperishfromtheearth."

AbrahamLincoln