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Quotation from The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.”
The Gettysburg Address, Sentence 2 (Avalon Project text)
The war is presented as a test of whether self-government can survive at all.
Citation: "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure." — Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, Sentence 2 (Avalon Project text). (id gettysburg-address-q2)
Portrait: Lincolnatgettysburg, Attributed to Mathew Brady studio / unidentified photographer, Public domain.
