Excerpt from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The full text is as follows.

Gettysburg address

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

1 1 month 19, 1863

Eighty-seven years ago, our forefathers created a new country on this continent, which was conceived in freedom and pursued the principle that all men are created equal.

Now, we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether this country, or any country that was born here and pursues this road, can exist for a long time. We met on a great battlefield of that war. We are here to dedicate a part of this battlefield to those who gave their lives for the survival of this country as their final resting place. It is entirely appropriate for us to do so.

However, in a broader sense, we cannot dedicate, sanctify or deify this land. The brave men who fought here, living and dead, have made this land sacred, which is far beyond our meager strength to increase or decrease. The world will not notice or remember what we said here for a long time, but it will never forget what they did here. On the contrary, we living people should devote ourselves here to the unfinished business that those who have fought here have so nobly advanced. We should devote ourselves to the great task before us here-from these glorious dead, we love the cause for which they gave their final dedication all the more-and we are determined here that these dead people will not die in vain-this country will get a new life of freedom under the protection of God-this government of the people, by the people and for the people will not disappear from the earth.