Twelve score and nine years ago our forebears brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are again engaged in testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are on no great battlefield, we cannot dedicate any place.

It is for us, rather, to be dedicated to the still unfinished work which those forebears have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that we today highly resolve that 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.