| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers | 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 engaged in a great civil war, | testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. |
| We are met on a | great battlefield of that war. |
| We have come to dedicate a portion of that field 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 cannot dedicate, | we cannot consecrate, we cannot 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 unfinished work which 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 increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion |
| --that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, | 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. |
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