The Gettysburg Address

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The Gettysburg Address

"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, 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, 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 of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

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[funividz]

lol i bet lincoln had the paper when he read it~ LOL

[ockteby]

@funividz You are correct.....I was reading it......not from memory. LOL

~frank~

[ImVannaBish]

i have to recite this TOMARROW and i only know the first couple of sentences

[ockteby]

@ImVannaBish How did it go for you.

[ImVannaBish]

@ockteby I got a 75

[ockteby]

@ImVannaBish Fantastic - You Passed :-)

[ShaniquaLisa]

This is a good speech... I have to do a report on this its pretty boring for a 7th grader .. God Bless

[madylalalaa]

@ImVannaBish mee too

[fadiowns99]

I must memorize all this for tomorow! and i just kno a few of dis!

[0wolfplayer0]

...that next year will not find us in the higher income bracket, that this taxpayer, underpaid, shall figure out more deductions, and that this tax of the people, by the Congress, for the Government, shall not cause solvency to perish.”

[0wolfplayer0]

“It is not for us, the taxpayers, to question the tax which the Government has thus far ignobly spent. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these vanishing dollars we take increased devotion to the few remaining—that we here highly resolve...

[0wolfplayer0]

“Our creditors will little note nor long remember what we pay here, but the Bureau of Internal Revenue can never forget what we report here.

[0wolfplayer0]

“We are met on Form 1040. We have come to dedicate a large portion of our income to a final resting place with those men who here spend their lives that they may spend our money. It is altogether anguish and torture that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot evade, we cannot cheat, we cannot underestimate this tax. The collectors, clever and sly, who compute here, have gone far beyond our poor power to add and subtract.