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Abraham Lincoln
Delivered on the 19th Day of November, 1863
Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Fourscore 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 that field as a final resting-place for those
who gave their lives that Nation might live.　It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this.

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 consecrated it far above our 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.　It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the
great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead, we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure
of devotion; that this Nation, under GOD, shall have a new birth of freedom;
and that government of the People by the People and for the People shall not
perish from the earth.

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发表于1863年11月19日，宾夕法尼亚州，葛底斯堡，公墓山