Gabrielle Giffords’ Favorite Quote: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...

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Gabrielle Giffords’ Favorite Quote


Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head Saturday, on Facebook lists her favorite quote as this line from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html

Sadly relevant given the day’s events, and the fate of the author of those moving words.

The full quote, which Giffords edited for her page, is:

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.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/gabrielle_giffords_favorite_quote_20110108/?ln