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

12 seconds sound clip from the Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:01:55 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- 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 now on a great battlefield 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 cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground.

- The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far beyond 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 honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion....

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