24. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our
bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield 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.
- Abraham Lincoln,
first inaugural address, 1861
Which idea does President Lincoln express in this excerpt [8.8C, 8.29D]
no