
Schluss der Rede zum Amtsantritt am 4. März 1861. In: Das Leben Abraham Lincolns, von Frank Croby, nach dem Englischen bearbeitet von Carl Theodor Eben. Philadelphia 1865. S. 108
Original englisch: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stre[t]ching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." - Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt039.html