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By Abraham Lincoln
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
- Source
- Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 · Vol. 8, p. 333
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- The Avalon Project, Yale Law School
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Delivered on March 4, 1865, six weeks before Lincoln's death. This is the punctuation of Lincoln's own manuscript, which he gave to John Hay. The version usually quoted is punctuated differently.