I could've sworn I added : Let's do lunch!
peanutbutter and jellyfish
Jacques Cousteau--Roy Scheider
the last full measure of devotion
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 on a battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those that 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 cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far beyond our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated to the great unfinished task which lies before us. That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of devotion.
That we here highly resolve that these honored dead shall not have died in vain; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the Earth!
