Fresh Perspectives: FREEDOM

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Flashback: November 19, 1863 ~ Still Fits?

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Four score 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,
testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure.
We are met on a great battle-field 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 can not dedicate
— we can not consecrate — we can not 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.