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Great Oration in History: Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In three sentences, Lincoln framed the Civil War as a test of whether the United States, "conceived in liberty" could endure. He honored those who died in the battle and called for renewed dedication to the Union to ensure that their deaths were not in vain and that the nation would have "a new birth of freedom."

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Great Oration in History: Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In three sentences, Lincoln framed the Civil War as a test of whether the United States, "conceived in liberty" could endure. He honored those who died in the battle and called for renewed dedication to the Union to ensure that their deaths were not in vain and that the nation would have "a new birth of freedom."

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Great Oration in History

Abraham Lincoln
Given at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on
November 19, 1863:

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 it, as a final resting
place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all
propriety do. 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 hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little
note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they
did here.

It is rather for us the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining
before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause
for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation 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.

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