People

The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. Quotes 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. The Gettysburg Address, honoring Union soldiers at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg (19 November 1863), based on the signed "Bliss Copy" Category:Humans