...lead us safely out of this wilderness." In his 1861 inaugural address he said: "We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone...

...they think he will take the country on the charged issue of slavery, he pleads, We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...must not break our bonds of affection, The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlef1eld, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone,...

...exploration of the standoff of North versus South, he spoke to the secessionists: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...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,...

...countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves...registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while / shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend' it."65 Lincoln, a political activist...

...Providence on a just cause." President Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 1861 "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion...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,...

...countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves...aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy ihe government, while / shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. Thus flowed...

...Then, earnestly and eloquently, "While you have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it. ... We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection....

...fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves...most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it." In the White House, Lincoln's first day in office was just as he had feared. Besides the constitutional...

...countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves...the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.1 For Lincoln to take an oath, swearing that it is registered in Heaven, if not genuinely sincere,...

...by turning around Seward's suggested "I close," which was too abrupt for what followed: I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must...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,...