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It was Abraham Lincoln's, his Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865.
Abraham Lincoln is the person that said that
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Lincoln urged Americans to work "with malice toward none, with charity for all" to achieve "a just and lasting peace."
"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." Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.
President Lincoln proclaimed his motto "with malice toward none, with charity for all" in his second inaugural address. He was also known to evoke the mantra of "Union, Union, Union".
By the use of this term, in the context of Lincoln's second inaugural speech in 1865, the phrase containing "malice towards none" reads as follows: With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right...... Here Lincoln sets forth to blame no one as the "sinner" for the war. He blames not the South nor the North. Or, it can be said that he believed each of the parties to the war have equal blame.
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This phrase is from his second inaugural address, given March 4,1865.
The statement shows Lincoln's attitude towards the rebel Southern states. Unlike some of the other people in the government, Lincoln did not want to punish the South but rather to get them back in the Union as painlessly as possible.