Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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