 Four score in 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 all together fitted and proper that we should do this But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate We cannot consecrate we cannot hollow this ground The brave man living in said who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power It's out of the track the world will little know nor long remember what we say here But it can never forget what they did here is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work Which they who fought here have thus far nobly advanced It is better for us to be here dedicated to the great task for any before us that from these honored dead We take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion That we hear highly resolved 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