The Quote Mine

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth [...] a great civil war[...]. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to [...] a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives, that the 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, [...] the world will little note, nor long remember [...]. [...] It is rather for us to be dedicated here to the unfinished work [...] that we here highly resolve that these dead shall [...] have died in vain."   

"While I give you these assurances, and pledge myself in the most unequivocal manner, to exert whatever ability I am possessed of, [...] to take any measures, which, viewed in the calm light of reason, will lessen the dignity, & sully the glory you [American soldiers] have hitherto maintained."