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By Abraham Lincoln
…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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- Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 · Vol. 7, p. 23
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
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Delivered at the dedication of the soldiers' cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863. The Collected Works prints a first draft and a final text, and this is from the final text. It starts mid-sentence, so it is a cut from a longer sentence.