Lincoln's Gettysburg Address - Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery - Schuylerville, New York, USA - Abraham Lincoln on Waymarking.com

This is a metal plaque held up on wooden posts containing the text of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which he gave at the dedication ceremony of Gettysburg National Cemetery on November 19, 1863. This speech is definitely among the most well known, if not the most famous, in American history. Though Lincoln that we would "little note, nor long remember what we say here," his words have inspired generations of Americans, teaching the importance of honoring and remembering those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect us and our freedoms.

The plaque reads:

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN
at the dedication of
THE GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY
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.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 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 fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. 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, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 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 that cause for which they gave the last full measure of 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.

Location Type: Historic Marker Property Type: Public Location Notes: Cemetery gates are open from dawn to dusk. URL for Additional Information: [Web Link] Date of Event: Not listed

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