[00:00.00]Four score and seven years ago[00:03.46]our fathers brought forth on this continent,[00:06.93]a new nation,[00:09.10]conceived in liberty,[00:10.77]and dedicated to the proposition[00:13.88]that all men are created equal.[00:18.92]Now we are engaged in a great civil war,[00:22.50]testing whether that nation,[00:24.80]or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,[00:28.25]can long endure.[00:31.28]We are met on a great battlefield of that war.[00:35.36]We have come to dedicate a portion of that field,[00:39.65]as a final resting place for those[00:42.44]who here gave their lives that nation might live.[00:48.49]It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.[00:54.30]But, in a larger sense,[00:57.21]we can not dedicate,[00:59.00]we can not consecrate,[01:01.70]we can not hallow this ground.[01:05.03]The brave men, living and dead,[01:09.28]who struggled here,[01:10.91]have consecrated it,[01:12.31]far above our poor power to add or detract.[01:18.27]The world will little note,[01:20.73]nor long remember what we say here,[01:24.82]but it can never forget what they did here.[01:30.03]It is for us the living,[01:33.02]rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work[01:36.46]which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.[01:42.58]It is rather for us to be here dedicated[01:45.58]to the great task remaining before us,[01:49.27]that from these honored dead[01:51.22]we take increased devotion to that cause[01:55.42]for which they gave the last full measure of devotion,[02:01.58]that we here highly resolve[02:04.35]that these dead shall not have died in vain,[02:08.38]that this nation, under God,[02:11.13]shall have a new birth of freedom,[02:14.09]and that government of the people,[02:17.05]by the people,[02:18.66]for the people,[02:20.46]shall not perish from the earth.