"All we've done is show that democracy isn't chaos..."

"All we've done is show that democracy isn't chaos... That there is a great invisible strength in a people's union. See we've shown that a people can endure awful sacrifice and yet cohere! Mightn't that save at least the idea of democracy to aspire to, eventually to become worthy of? At all rates, whatever may be proven by blood and sacrifice must have been proven by now.
Shall we stop this bleeding?"
-- Lincoln