The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

“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….

“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation shall under God have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

★ First day newspaper printing, November 20, 1863, #26142