Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address: “With malice toward none”
“With malice toward none; with charity for all . . . let us strive on to finish the work we are in . . . to do all which may…
Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address: “The better angels of our nature”
“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…
[Movie review] Lincoln: A President Engaged in a Great Civil War
“The genius of ‘Lincoln,’ finally, lies in its vision of politics as a noble, sometimes clumsy dialectic of the exalted and the mundane. Our habit of argument, someone said recently,…