"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 battle-field, 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."
—from the First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, delivered on March 4, 1861.
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