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.
Abraham Lincoln was born on this date 198 years ago. The portrait was taken four days before his assassination. The Library of Congress has a large collection of Lincoln photographs and papers. You can spend an awful lot of time there browsing. Trust me.
Great man. Serious hair-issues though.