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D. Craig Horn
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Ties That Bind: Washington, Lincoln and Churchill, Part 2
31
Mar
2022
By D. CRAIG HORN
There is no glory in war and no victory in retribution. Each of these leaders could look beyond war to Churchill’s “broad sunlit uplands.” Washington warned against aggravating the Patriot-Loyalist divide lest it destabilize the new nation. Abraham Lincoln took that precept to sublime heights in 1865: “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.”