Discours de Lincoln
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Discours du Président Américain Abraham Lincoln prononcé le 19 Novembre 1863, après la bataille de Gettysburg. En plein milieu de la guerre, Lincoln tient à rappeler les valeurs pour lesquelles se battent les soldats, qui sont aussi les valeurs de son pays. Ce discours, qui ne dura pourtant que quelques minutes, reste encore aujourd'hui marqué dans le cœur des Américains. Il est prononcé lors d'une cérémonie vouée à rendre hommage aux milliers de soldats morts durant la bataille de Gettysburg.
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The Gettysburg Address
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.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and
so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great
battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for those
who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do
this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can
not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add
or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what
we say here, but it can never forget what they did
here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated
here to the unfinished work which they who fought
here have thus far so nobly advanced.
The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
19 Novembre 1863, Gettysburg
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.
