Gettysburg Address - Hear and Read the Text - Abraham Lincoln

Listen to and read the full text of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln presented this speech on November 19, 1863, four score and seven years, 87 years, after the Declaration of Independence. These well written and concise remarks were heard during the American Civil War, at Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, after the Union defeated the Confederacy.

Narrator: Timelessreader1
Photographer: Timelessreader1
Text: Public Domain

[alexandraflores]

Omg I am listening to this on Sunday the day before my test and this is helping me so much I can’t believe that a couple people have thumbs this down

[michaelmika]

What a speech for all of mankind. I memorized this in my early years of school. It was fascinating then and it still is now. We are the fortunate ones to have lived here in this, the greatest environment on earth and Abraham Lincoln could not have put in into better words for the rest of time for us all to read, remember and to pass it on to our very fortunate children.

[jesmarkmikesell]

*"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have this far so nobly advanced."*

Man I wish I could write like this.

[nathanday]

Thank you for this. So many of these kinds of videos have maudlin readings and unnecessary background music. This version allowed me, and my 7 and 9 year old kids to listen to this every night until we had it memorized. I should have learned this in school but it is better late than never. Thanks. We are going to tackle your Robert Frost poem next.

[jadanicole]

This video saved my life!! Thank you so much!!!!

[DelMundoGerlieB]

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon 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 here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, 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 can never forget what they did here.

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. 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 shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[deboraholsen]

To those who wrote below: May we all apply this study in our lives! :)

[JILLIJILLIBEAN]

this has helped me study so much thx luv sofe n me

[fullofskit]

Sadly, Lincoln was wrong. It is perishing right now. And we made it happen. We get the president we deserve.

[annelawler]

To hear the story of the 2 minute speech by Abraham Lincoln, which changed the world forever, go to Peter Fenzel, Episode 2 - The Gettysburg Address - In Their Own Words. No distortions - Pure History! You will love it!!!

[alexb.]

I'm here to memeorize it just for fun

[judgementravi]

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[stannewman]

Faith pleases GOD !
Remember 9/11 !
May GOD help “US”.