
— Abraham Lincoln US-amerikanischer Präsident 1809 - 1865
Schluss von Lincoln Ansprache zur Einweihung des Soldatenfriedhofs auf dem Schlachtfeld Gettysburg am 19. November 1863. Heinrich August Winkler: Geschichte des Westens, Band I (2009) S. 748 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=lM7ydTGVSigC&pg=PA748
Original englisch: "[…] 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.“ - Gettysburg Address.