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I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address · 1861

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Abraham Lincoln · 1865
Second Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s reflection on slavery as the war’s cause and his appeal for humility, reconciliation and a just peace.

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