“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,
to care for him who shall have borne the battle
and for his widow and his orphan,
to do all which may achieve
and cherish a just and lasting peace
among ourselves and with all nations.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) (aged 56) 16th President of the United States (March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.) He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery… Source
