With Charity For All

With malice toward none;

with charity for all;

with firmness in the right,

as God gives us to see the right,

let us strive to finish the work we are in;

to bind up the nation's wounds;

to care for him who shall have borne the battle...

to do all which may achieve and cherish

a just and lasting peace,

among ourselves, and with all nations.

~Abraham Lincoln, as quoted in April 1865 by Jay Winik