 A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. 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...  Complete Works - Page 18by Abraham Lincoln - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 946 pages
...do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect that it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | United States - 1859 - 406 pages
...dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it to cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been...other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been...other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been...other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have heen reached and passed. " A house divided against itself...other. Either the opponents of Slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the helief that it is in... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...I do not expect the Union to dissolve ; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind will rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...free. I do not expect the House to fall, but I do expect tt will cease tu be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of Slavery will arrest the further spread of H, and place U where Ihe public mind ahull rest In the belÍ€Í that It Is... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - 1860 - 226 pages
...free. 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. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 pages
...free. 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. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in... | |
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