After the Civil War, some victorious Northerners pushed for retributive policies against the South. Lincoln's template of healing the national rift ("Reconstruction") emphasized not punishing...
Abraham Lincoln.
"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...
The word "malice" means the act of evil upon another person or creature. Charity means helping and teaming up together in unity. So the quote by Abraham Lincoln mean having no evil upon anyone and...