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Read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and then answer the question that follows:

(1) Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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 battlefield of that war.

(2) We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this 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.

What does President Lincoln imply by the following line?
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

A.) His words are more important than their actions.
B.) Others’ words are more important than their actions.
C.) Their actions are more important than his words.
D.) Their actions are more important than others’ words.

User Silviu
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I believe that your answer is either C or D. It’s most likely D though.
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Answer:

President Lincoln implies that Their actions are more important than others’ words.

Step-by-step explanation:

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address had the purpose of making a call to unity and to give more value to the sacrifices of soldiers who had died in war, therefore this lines represent those actions many men did in order to keep peace and equality in the country and how those actions have much more value than any words people could say about it.

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