With Malice Toward None, With Charity For All

From President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

Text of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC

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 a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

April 10, 1865

Join Friday Fun Photo Challenge: A Saying

 

p

The Price of Victory

The Price You Paid

Detail from memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (informally known as Punchbowl Cemetery), Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii.

Detail from memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (informally known as Punchbowl Cemetery), Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii.

The quote on the center sculpture at the National Cemetery is from President Lincoln’s 1864 letter to a bereaved mother.

WPC: Victory

%d bloggers like this: