Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
10 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Four score and seven years ago....
|
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....
|
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so long dedicated can endure.
|
|
|
We are....
|
We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
|
|
|
We have come to....
|
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...
|
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
|
|
|
But in a larger sense.....
|
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground.
|
|
|
The brave men, living or dead....
|
The brave men, living or dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
|
|
|
The world will little note nor long remember....
|
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....
|
It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so far nobly advanced.
|
|
|
It is rather for us....
|
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; 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.
|
