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Four and years ago our fathers forth, a new conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that 'all are equal' |
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| Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, long endure. We met on a battle field of war. We come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those died here, the nation might live. we may, in do. But, in a we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we hallow, this ground -- The brave men, living and dead, here, have hallowed it, far above to add or detract. The world note, nor we say here; it never forget they |
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| It is rather for us, the living, we be dedicated to the remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead we take increased to cause for which they here, gave the last full of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that of the by the people for the shall not perish the earth. |