"...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freeedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 |