![]() It may very well have been the best speech ever made by an American citizen. Despite these facts, this short speech was perhaps the best speech ever made by any President. In fact, it wasn’t even flawless from a grammatical standpoint. ![]() Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, only 269 words long, certainly was nothing amazing from a literary standpoint. Nearly 140 years ago, Abraham Lincoln made his most famous speech. that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us. 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. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.īut, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. ![]() testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. Given Novemon the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USAįour score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ![]()
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