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- Subject: A. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
- Date: 30 Dec 92 10:11:45
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- probably a bit long for this group, but truly a classic;
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- Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg
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- 19 November, 1863
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- Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
- continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
- proposition that all men are created equal.
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- 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 field of that war. We have come to dedicate a
- portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave
- their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and
- proper that we should do this.
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- 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, far above our poor 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 here to the unfinished work which they who have fought here have
- thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here 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 we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have
- died in vain- that this nation, under God, 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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