On the recordMarch 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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From the Second Inaugural Address, reflecting on healing the nation after the Civil War.
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