Gettysburg Address

Melissa E. (United States of America)
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  1. consecrate
    give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
    But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground.
  2. nation
    a politically organized body of people under a government
    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.
  3. civil war
    a war between factions in the same country
    Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
  4. civil
    of or occurring between or among citizens of the state
    Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
  5. liberty
    freedom of choice
    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.
  6. freedom
    the power to act, speak, or think without being controlled
    It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—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.
  7. government
    the system or form by which a community is ruled
    It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—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.
Created on Fri Jun 22 15:08:38 EDT 2012

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