Abraham lincoln suggests that the fight for freedom will be remembered by future generations and is worth the sacrifice. which passage from his gettysburg address best supports lincoln's central idea? a. now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived . . b. . 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. c. fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation . . d. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.