"For too long," says Ronald C. White, Jr., "Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address has lived under the shadow of the Gettysburg Address. And yet Lincoln thought this was his best effort." White does ...

Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address (1865): “With malice toward none, with charity for all…” Now, as to the speech — or more accurately, speeches (plural) —the first ever given ...

But other than mentioning "the lash of the whip," an echo of Lincoln's towering second inaugural address, and "gathering clouds and raging storms," Obama did not seem to quote the 16th president.