"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."

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1863, #AbrahamLincoln gave his famed, and brief, #GettysburgAddress. He noted the US was "dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal", and that conflict was "testing whether... any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."

"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." Abraham Lincoln, from the Gettysburg Address

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Mistodon: today is observed as #GettysburgAddress Day, #EqualOpportunity Day, and Dedication Day, all of which mark the date #AbrahamLincoln delivered his famous 1863 speech at the dedication of the cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield. #ANSIart cannon by AdeptApril