Abraham Lincoln: 'It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they have 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 the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish form the earth.'