Abraham Lincoln: “I can make a speech on any topic and still be misunderstood.”

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

Or, if one out of four will, for his own freedom fight to keep the other three in slavery, he ought to be a slave for his selfish meanness.

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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