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Quotation from The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
“Fourscore 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.”
The Gettysburg Address, Sentence 1 (Avalon Project text)
The opening dates the nation from 1776 and frames equality as its founding proposition.
Citation: "Fourscore 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." — Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, Sentence 1 (Avalon Project text). (id gettysburg-address-q1)
Portrait: Lincolnatgettysburg, Attributed to Mathew Brady studio / unidentified photographer, Public domain.
