Lincoln's Gettysburg Address - Farmingdale, New York - Abraham Lincoln on Waymarking.com

The four and a half foot tall Gettysburg Address plaque is an upright bronze plaque attached to a large rectangular granite slab measuring about 6 feet by 2 feet wide with a hipped granite cap. It was installed by the War Department in 1940.
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is the most famous, most quoted and the most recited speeches of all time. And it is also the shortest, just ten sentences and 272 words.
Plaque text:

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 Date of Event: 5/18/1936 Location Notes: Long Island National Cemetery hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm. URL for Additional Information: Not listed

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