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….
-Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (Saturday, March 4, 1865)
Abraham Lincoln in his Second Inaugural sought to heal a nation. He spoke with humility and grace as it is true that judgmental haughtiness undercuts reconciliation. Arrogant encyclicals and profane absolutism that treat man as a tyrant's toy and would usurp the role of God and conscience paint history red.
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