 | History - 2004 - 556 pages
...dedicate. We cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. [Applause]. The world will little know or long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...dedicate. We cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. [Applause.] The world will little note nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget... | |
 | Travel - 2007 - 306 pages
...can not consecrate — we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our power to add or detract." More than any other place in the United States, tlus battlefield is indeed hallowed ground. Perhaps... | |
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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 above our power to add or detract. 
