Four score 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 our equal.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave there 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 rather for us to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.