(delivered at the dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysberg, November 19, 1863)

Four score and advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain years ago our advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain brought forth on this advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain war, testing whether that advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain, or any advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain so conceived and so advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain, can long advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain. We are advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain a portion of that field, as a final advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain place for those who here gave their lives that that advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain might live. It is altogether advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain, we can not advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain -- we can not advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain -- we can not advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain it, far above our poor power to add or advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain. The world will little advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain, nor long advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain what we say here, but it can advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain forget what they advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain here. It is for us the advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain, rather, to be advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain here to the advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain remaining before us -- that from these advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain dead we take increased advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain to that cause for which they gave the last advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain measure of devotion -- that we here highly advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain that these dead shall not have died in advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain -- that this advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain, under God, shall have a new advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain of freedom -- and that advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain of the people, advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain the people, advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain the advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain, shall not advancedbirthbycivilconsecrateconsecratedcontinentdedicatededicateddetractdevotiondidendurefathersfittingforfullgovernmenthallowhonoredlivingmetnationnevernotepeopleperishrememberresolverestingsenseseventaskunfinishedvain from the earth.