Abraham Lincoln: “A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”

I am considering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper.

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.

I do hereby notify them that all deserters who shall, within sixty days from the date of this proclamation, viz, on or before the 10th day of May, 1865, return to service or report themselves to a provost-marshal shall be pardoned, on…

To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.