Sometimes I wonder if some folk recall what this here OP was even about.
While I do not see what comparing Lincoln's 2nd inaugural (after the war) to Trump's (during a war) has to do with the OP, as presented, I wonder if, perhaps inadvertently, some are hoping their month after will be similar for both.
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Originally Posted by txdot-guy
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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 widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
—Abraham Lincoln - Second Inaugural Address
...We’re in a quagmire and we are sinking deeper by the week.
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As I recall, Lincoln had a very bad day a few weeks after that speech.
In other news: Anyone catch the recent SNL skit on Trump?
I think Lincoln's more relevant speech was a couple years earlier in the little hamlet of Gettysburg. That one seems a closer comparison with the OP topic at hand, in that it was given during the event - IMMHO.
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...The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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I suspect the future Citizens of Iran would appreciate a heaping helping of that there - "government of the people, by the people, for the people", instead of a regime that received, literally, pallets of cash, ~$150 billion, yet has no accounting of what it was spent on. Was it spent on their infrastructure? Maybe building schools in abandoned IRGC compounds. Nahhhh, I think we all know where it went - military spending.
Was the Civil war necessary? What about the current Iran action of the OP? They do have some parallels EX: Both were/are brutal, with many casualties, though the present conflict is taking great pains to avoid civilians. Both have the objective of freeing all the citizens - essentially. Both are/were intended to preserve and protect our nation.
If delving into quotes of old to try to understand freedom and safety for all citizens and the battles it takes, perhaps try Ulysses S. Grant:
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“I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't.”
“To maintain peace in the future it is necessary to be prepared for war.”
“I have never advocated war except as means of peace, so seek peace, but prepare for war. Because war... War never changes. War is like winter and winter is coming.”
“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”
“In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then he who continues the attack wins.”
“But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.”
“Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.”
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