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" 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... "
Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State ... - Page 265
by Abraham Lincoln - 1907
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it

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 course of ultimate extinction,...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 43

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...slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction,...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on ...

David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...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. Either the opponents...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition...
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ...

Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 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...extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it 'hall become alike lawful in all the States — old as well as new, North as well as South." There...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hon ...

Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 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...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...free. I do not expect the House to fall, but I do expect It will cease to be divided. It will hecome all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents...the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push forward till it shall hecome alike lawful in all the States —old as well as new, North...
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The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of Abram [sic] Lincoln: Together ...

Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of shivery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it...forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition...
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ...

Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 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...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, north...
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Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

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...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on ...

David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 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...the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward, until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new. North...
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