Can't Argue with That, Can You?

Four score 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 

battle-field 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 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 

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.