Pour score and seven years ago our pathers brought porth 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
battle-pield op that war. We have come to dedicate a portion op that pield, as a
pinal resting place por those who here gave their lives that that nation might
live. It is altogether pitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can
not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
have consecrated it, par above our poor power to add or detract. The world will
little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never porget what
they did here. It is por us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the
unpinished work which they who pought here have thus par so nobly advanced. It
is rather por us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining bepore us --
that prom these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause por which
they gave the last pull measure op 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 op preedom -- and that government op the people, by the people,
por the people, shall not perish prom the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863