Twelve score and nine years ago some of our ancestors brought forth on this continent, a new nation, mostly conceived in Liberty and partially dedicated to the proposition that most people are created equal.
Now we are engaged in great quasi-civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Perhaps it cannot.
The great battle of this war will determine if science will drive scientific decisions or ideology, if xenophobia will rule the land, if the rights of all people will be honored and expanded or subjugated by the few, if we will take care of the least among us, or give more to those with the most.
We need to ask ourselves: Are we now coming to the final resting place of our democratic republic where those who gave their lives that the nation might live may have actually died in vain?
Or should we here and now re-dedicate ourselves to the great task before us-that from those who fought and strove to make our country better we take increased devotion that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. And that the government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaire does perish from the earth.
