Gettysburg Address
(1863)
Dieses Dokument datiert vom 19. November 1863.
Bei Adolf Rock (Hrsg.), Dokumente der amerikanischen Demokratie, Wiesbaden 1947, S. 166-167, findet sich eine
gedruckte Fassung sowie eine
deutsche Übersetzung.
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FOURSCORE 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.
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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
of those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we
cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The
brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far
above our 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 they 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 here gave
the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that the
dead shall not have died in vain, that the nation shall, under God, have
a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people,
and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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