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Gettysburg Address:

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--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.”

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