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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.
Second Inaugural Address, 1865
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Delivered on March 4, 1865, five weeks before Lincoln's assassination, the Second Inaugural is widely regarded as the greatest speech in American history—a call to rebuild without bitterness.

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