"The world will very 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 that 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 the 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 the nation, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."