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[[Image:Lincoln at Gettysburg.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Abraham Lincoln (center) at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863.]]

[[Image:Lincoln at Gettysburg.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Abraham Lincoln (center) at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863.]]

The Gettysburg Address is short speech by [[Abraham Lincoln]] which took its most famous expressions from the [[Bible]], without giving it credit.  Its opening line -- fourscore and seven years ago -- is a play on the biblical expression about how the lifespan of an average person is threescore and ten years: "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away."<ref>Psalm 90:10 (KJV)</ref>  The famous conclusion in the Gettysburg Address is a paraphrase of the General Prologue to the first English translation of the Bible by John Wycliffe (1384): "This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People."

The Gettysburg Address is short speech by [[Abraham Lincoln]] which took its most famous expressions from the [[Bible]], without giving it credit.  Its opening line -- fourscore and seven years ago -- is a play on the biblical expression about how the lifespan of an average person is threescore and ten years: "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away."<ref>[[Psalms 81-90 (Translated)#90:10|Psalms 90:10 (KJV)]]</ref>  The famous conclusion in the Gettysburg Address is a paraphrase of the General Prologue to the first English translation of the Bible by John Wycliffe (1384): "This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People."

The Gettysburg Address, delivered by [[Abraham Lincoln]] as he personally was acquiring a stronger [[faith]] in [[God]], embodies the belief in [[Manifest Destiny]] that [[America]] is "the last best hope of earth."<ref>http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/mandestiny.htm</ref>

The Gettysburg Address, delivered by [[Abraham Lincoln]] as he personally was acquiring a stronger [[faith]] in [[God]], embodies the belief in [[Manifest Destiny]] that [[America]] is "the last best hope of earth."<ref>http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/mandestiny.htm</ref>