3 proposition that all men are created equal. 7 portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here 8 gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting 9 and proper that we should do this. 10 But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we 11 can not hallow--this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who 12 struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add 13 or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say 18 these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which 19 they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly 20 resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, 21 under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of 22 the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the 23 earth.