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.
—First Inaugural Address, 1861
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