Abraham Lincoln actually said...

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposi...