Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989

It is interesting to see the times that previous presidents have made reference to God in addressing the nation. Lincoln says"Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged."

How appropriate to today’s problems and today’s religious debate. This speaks both to the criticism of the Democrats that the Republicans went into Iraq with insufficient force. It also speaks to the Democrat’s complaining that if the war is not won and the peace cleaned up in a matter of months the country is in a quagmire.