Read abraham lincoln’s gettysburg address which line from the speech serves as the climax? a the government of the people by the people for the people shut up paris from the earth b now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure c we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live d but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground