Fourscore 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.
Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address”
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On This Day
November 19, 1863 – at the dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln delivers one of the most memorable speeches in American history. Although only 272 words, the “little speech,” as he later called it, is thought by many today to be the most eloquent articulation of the democratic vision ever written.
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