Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

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

Damn Lincoln, you are fresh. I haven't been following the presidential elections this year, but what happened to the days when people said what they believed? Especially politicians. People are so vague with their words now.

A small anecdote:
I asked my pupil, "Why would the colonists be upset if they were allowed to trade only with England?"
His response, "Because then they couldn't trade with other countries."
My reply, "You basically repeated to me what I said to you. Do you see how you twisted the wording around?"
His epiphany, "Oh, yes, I get it. Well then, they were upset because they didn't have a variety of people to trade with."

WHAT ARE SCHOOLS TEACHING THESE DAYS? Schools are becoming instructors of bullshitting.

Everybody is too afraid of being offensive. But when did it become inappropriate to talk about God? If I believe in God, and a non-believer listens to me speak about God, why should he feel offended? I'm not imposing any beliefs upon him; I'm stating what I believe. Who was the last politician courageous enough to talk about his ideas with his religion and allow it to reflect in his speeches? Or is religion not so important anymore?

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

Yes, His will be done.
Please let it be something I like.