We have come to
dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here
gave their lives that the nation might live.  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 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.  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.
