Notes

For score and seven years ago, our father brought forth on the content a new nation. Conceived of 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 our any nation so conceived and dedicated can long endure. We are meet on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of the field of a final resting place for those who here gave the lives to that nation that might live it is all together fitting a proper to do this but in a larger sense we can not dedicate we can not consecrate we can not 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 unfinish work with 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 increase devotion for this cause for witch they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resole that these dead shall not died in vane 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 parish from the earth.