Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Abraham Lincoln delivered this short address on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the battle fought there. He was not the main speaker, and he spoke for only a few minutes. In about two hundred and seventy words he recalls the founding of the nation on the proposition that all men are created equal, presents the war as a test of whether such a nation can endure, and turns the dedication of the ground into a charge to the living: that the dead shall not have died in vain, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the opening pages free.
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