Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg
Four score and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, concieved 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 concieved 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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Getty's Address at Lincolnburg
Fifty billion score and several years ago our forefathers brought forth this continent, a new notion, concieved liberally by a dedicated Gia, to the proposition that all men are created in her image. We were then engaged in a great civil war, testing which nation, if any nation so concieved and so dedicated, could longest endure. Hannibal and Atilla made a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for he who here gave his life that that nation might fall. 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--that 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, since this battle happened a long time ago. 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 Ground, shall have a new mirth for freedom; and that government of the peep-hole, by the steeple, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. We must therefore dedicate to the consecrated, for the purpose of consecrating the dedication of concieving the concieved (for there is no greater dedication to dedicate us to consecrating), these most worthy two thumbs up.
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