Abraham Lincoln
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President of the United States · United States
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“Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."”
Delivered at the Capitol as the Civil War was nearing its end. The sentence follows the hope that the war might pass away quickly and precedes the passage beginning 'With malice toward none, with charity for all'.
Abraham Lincoln, second inaugural address, 4 March 1865, Avalon Project, Yale Law School Source