에이브러햄 링컨 대통령[게티즈버그 연설문]

게티즈버그 연설은 남북전쟁 중인 1863년 11월 19일 에이브러햄 링컨 대통령이 행한 연설입니다. 이 연설은 전쟁의 가장 피비린내 나는 전투 중 하나인 게티즈버그 전투 후 북군 병사들이 묻힌 펜실베이니아 게티즈버그의 군인 국립묘지 헌납식에서 이루어졌습니다.

그 연설은 미국 역사상 가장 위대하고 유명한 연설 중 하나로 널리 여겨집니다. 그것은 단지 몇 분 동안 지속되는 간결함과 연합을 보존하고 민주주의와 평등의 원칙을 유지하는 것의 중요성에 대한 강력하고 영감을 주는 메시지로 유명합니다.

게티즈버그 연설문의 본문은 다음과 같습니다;

 

"Four score 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.

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 great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who 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 can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that 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."