Abraham Lincoln actually said...

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.

Address at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania [Gettysburg Address]

11/18/1863

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