that the reason we live in the UNITED, not DIVIDED, States is because of this man and the brave people who fought and died in the Civil War...
"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 hearthstone 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
Monday, March 4, 1861
"...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"
Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863
"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 do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address
Saturday, March 4, 1865