1863

The Gettysburg Address

Tout comme les écoliers français apprennent par cœur des fables de La Fontaine, les jeunes Américains apprennent au collège le discours que le président Abraham Lincoln prononça sur le champ de bataille de Gettysburg, à l'occasion de la dédicace d'un cimetière en hommage à toutes les victimes, le 19 novembre 1863.

Voici ci-dessous le texte officiel en anglais (pour la traduction française, cliquer ici).

The Gettysburg Address (en version originale)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal".
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 met on a great battle-field 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 above 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 honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - 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.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Les États-Unis d'Abraham Lincoln

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