The Literal Gettysburg Address: Four score and literally seven years ago our fathers literally brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that literally all men are created equal. Now we are literally engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are literally met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to literally dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here literally 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 literally dedicate -- we can not literally consecrate -- we can not literally hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have literally 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 literally can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be literally dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who literally 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 literally gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have literally died in vain -- that this nation, literally under God, literally shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not literally perish from the earth.