Which phrase indicates that lincoln believed the battle of gettysburg was part of a fight for democracy? 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 usâ€"that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotionâ€"that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vainâ€"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. â€"abraham lincoln
