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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
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