A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
There is no evil in the world without a remedy.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.