1921年6月,孫文演說《三民主義之具體辦法》時說,“這句話的中文意思,沒有適當的譯文,兄弟就把它譯作:民有、民治、民享。of the people就是民有,by the people就是民治,for the people就是民享。林肯所主張的這民有、民治和民享主義,就是兄弟所主張的民族、民權和民生主義!”而在1924年演講《三民主義》之『民生主義』第二講末端表示:?我們三民主義的意思,就是民有民治民享;這個民有、民治、民享的意思,就是國家是人民所共有,政治是人民所共管,利益是人民所共享。?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on 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. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not 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.
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 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.