"The question is not whether we will be free, but whether we will be free to choose."
"It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground."
"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 have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live."
"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract."
"You may fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
"Four score 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."
"We are met on a great battle-field of that war."