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005 - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address · Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

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  Speaker 1: Section five of Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln, edited by
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  Speaker 1: Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Lillian Marie Briggs.
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  Speaker 1: Section five Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech at the dedication of the
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  Speaker 1: National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November fifteenth, eighteen sixty three,
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  Speaker 1: four score and seven years ago. Our fathers brought forth
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  Speaker 1: upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and
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  Speaker 1: dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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  Speaker 1: Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
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  Speaker 1: whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,
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  Speaker 1: can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield
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  Speaker 1: of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion
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  Speaker 1: of that field as a final resting place for those
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  Speaker 1: who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
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  Speaker 1: It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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  Speaker 1: But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
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  Speaker 1: we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
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  Speaker 1: who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power
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  Speaker 1: to add or detract. The world will little note nor
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  Speaker 1: long remember what we say here, but it can never
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  Speaker 1: forget what they did here. It is for us the living,
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  Speaker 1: rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which
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  Speaker 1: they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
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  Speaker 1: It is rather for us to be here dedicated to
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  Speaker 1: the great task remaining before us, that from these honored
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  Speaker 1: dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
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  Speaker 1: they gave the last full measure of devotion. That we
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  Speaker 1: here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died
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  Speaker 1: in vain, that this nation under God shall have a
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  Speaker 1: new birth of freedom, and that government of the people,
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  Speaker 1: by the people, and for the people shall not perish
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  Speaker 1: from the earth. End of Section five.