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Quotation from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln
“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.”
Second Inaugural Address, Paragraph 3 (Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents (GPO, 1989), Avalon Project)
A balanced, alliterative prayer for peace placed just before the hardest sentence in the speech.
Citation: "Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away." — Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Paragraph 3 (Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents (GPO, 1989), Avalon Project). (id lincoln-second-inaugural-address-q5)
Portrait: Abraham Lincoln giving his second Inaugural Address (4 March 1865), Alexander Gardner, Public domain.
