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Interview Between the President and General McClellan and Other Officers During a Visit to the Army of the Potomac at...

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Apr 11, 1865

I believe that it is not only possible, but in fact easier, to do this without deciding or even considering whether these States have ever been out of the Union, than with it.

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Apr 11, 1865

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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Mar 3, 1865

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.

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Mar 17, 1865

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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