>>>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 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.
>>>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 
>>>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 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.