“With malice toward none; with charity for all.”Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1865 · View source
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“With malice toward none; with charity for all.”Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1865 · View source
“With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1865 · View source
“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it.”Cooper Union Address, 27 February 1860 · View source
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”House Divided Speech, 16 June 1858 · View source
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863 · View source