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Quotation from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln
“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.”
Second Inaugural Address, Paragraph 3 (Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents (GPO, 1989), Avalon Project)
Lincoln condemns slaveholding through an echo of Genesis 3:19, then restrains his own judgment with Matthew 7:1.
Citation: "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." — Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Paragraph 3 (Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents (GPO, 1989), Avalon Project). (id lincoln-second-inaugural-address-q3)
Portrait: Abraham Lincoln giving his second Inaugural Address (4 March 1865), Alexander Gardner, Public domain.
