"I do not expect the Union to..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
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“I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.”
“[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.”
“I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.”
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“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”
“We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.”
“If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.”
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“Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.”
“This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.”