ith 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.   —President Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865

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 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.
 
—President Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865

In this excerpt, Lincoln asserts that, as a leader, his goal is to seek—
 
 
a. economic prosperity for the Northern states.
 
b. peaceful reunion of the country.
 
c. expansion of executive power.
 
d. harsh punishment for the Southern states.
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