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The Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Deal with was delivered by President Abraham Lincoln, on November 19, 1863, on the commitment with the Nationwide Cemetery at Gettysburg,Cheap Office Enterprise 2007, Pennsylvania, the site of one from the bloodiest battles with the American Civil War (July, 1863). The text of your speech is as follows:

"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.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war,Office 2007 Professional, 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,Cheap Microsoft Office 2010, 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 from the people, by the people,windows 7 Professional, for the people shall not perish through the earth."

-- Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

A service of your Superintendent of Documents,Office Professional 2007, U.S. Government Printing Office.

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