Ｇｅｔｔｙｓｂｕｒｇ Ａｄｄｒｅｓｓ President Abraham Lincoln
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.
Ｓｅｃｏｎｄ Ｉｎａｕｇｕｒａｌ Ａｄｄｒｅｓｓ President Abraham Lincoln
With malice toward none;
with charity for all;
with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on
to finish the work we are in;
to bind up the nation's wounds;
to care for him who shall have
borne the battle,
and for his widow,
and his orphan—
to do all which may achieve
and cherish
a just and
a lasting
peace among ourselves,
and with all
nations.
