Daily Archive: March 26th, 2008
Cool Dude #4: The Voters
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it 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 all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
I have fallen back on that quote often in my life. It comes as the closing paragraph in Abraham Lincoln inaugural address. I think …