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We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. speech, Nov. 19, 1863. Gettysburg Address, repr. In Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953).

Lincoln's dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, where fighting from July 1-3, 1863, claimed nearly 50,000 killed or wounded.

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