A very famous speech starts "Four Score and seven years ago . . ."
Do you know what speech it is? On November 19, 1863, President
Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the end of the ceremonies
dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
That speech has come to be known as the Gettysburg Address.
In it, Lincoln paid tribute to the Union soldiers who sacrificed
their lives for union and equality. Lincoln had no idea at the time
how famous his short speech would become. Lines of the
Gettysburg Address have been quoted and referred to time
and time again. They are even carved on the walls inside the
Lincoln Memorial: "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."

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