13-Mar-2003
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.
--Abraham Lincoln, Gettysberg, November 19, 1863
