that all men are created equal. nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that nation might live. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it. That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. Of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from earth.