 | Tim Stafford - Families - 2006 - 214 pages
...care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." We have not seen a politician like that in 1 50 years. Partly thanks to Lincoln I can almost... | |
 | James M. Gustafson - Religion - 138 pages
...him who shall have borne the nation's wounds, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." He did not live to attempt to turn this moral vision into policy; nor has anyone succeeded... | |
 | William Charles Harris - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 332 pages
...care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." For Lincoln, who had faith in the providence of God and the progress of America toward a... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - Religion - 2004 - 1220 pages
...care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. In this inspired document do we not see Lincoln's central convictions on the Union, the nation... | |
 | James Panabaker - History - 2004 - 264 pages
...care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace, among ourselves and with all nations." Thus ended, as if on a long-held organ note, the shortest inaugural any President had delivered... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. But as with the concept of courage, through wartime experience of the confusion and chaos... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." One newspaper of the day thought the concluding sentiments deserved to be "printed in gold."... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...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 a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.' Lincoln was not troubled that his address was not immediately popular. "Men are not flattered... | |
 | Doris Kearns Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 945 pages
...care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." More than any of his other speeches, the Second Inaugural fused spiritual faith with politics.... | |
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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 care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his... 
