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 here on a great battlefield of that war

we have come to dedicate a portion of it as

the final resting place for those who here gave their lives

that their nation might live

it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this

but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate

we cannot consecrated

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 can never forget did 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 carried on

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 are dead shall not have died in vain

that this nation

under god

shall have a new birth of freedom

and the government of the people

by the people

for the people

shall not perish from the earth