"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the fight 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."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
March 4 holds considerable historical significance in American history. The Constitution took effect in 1789 when the first Federal Congress convened in New York. Thomas Jefferson became the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C. in 1801. Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address in 1865 emphasized reconciliation and healing after the Civil War. Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 inauguration introduced his famous statement about fear itself during the Great Depression. Later events include Ronald Reagan's 1987 address on Iran-Contra, a 1998 Supreme Court ruling on workplace sexual harassment, and a 2015 Justice Department decision regarding Ferguson police practices. The date also marks cultural moments, including John Lennon's controversial 1966 statement about The Beatles' popularity.
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