On November 19 in History

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Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of
the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, PA (1863)

Four 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.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are
met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate
a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their
lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper
that we should 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 can never forget what they did here.

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is
rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before
us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that
cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion -
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that
this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall
not perish from the earth.