Whatever it removes it will not be their strength.

In a war admittedly between brothers, a civil war, where different conceptions of duty force men asunder, father is up against son, and brother against brother; yet they are not weakened in their contest by ties of blood and the deeper-lying harmony of things that in happier times prevail to the exclusion of bitterness and hate.

When, therefore, you teach a man his enemy is in a deep sense his brother, you do not draw him from the fight, but you give him a new conception of the goal to win and with a great dream inspire him to persevere and reach the goal.
VI If, then, beyond individual and national freedom there is this great dream still to be striven for, let us not decry it as something too sublime for earth.

It must be our guiding star to lead us rightly as far as we may go.

We can travel rightly that part of the road we now tread on only by shaping it true to the great end that ought to inspire us all.