A house divided against itself cannot stand.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.”
“For what Pericles said to the Athenians has long been true of this commonwealth: ’We do not imitate—for we are a model to others.’”
“Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.”
“If the government is cruel, the governor’s life is not safe.”
“Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It’s the system that functions in the pinches that survives.”
“I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
“There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped by merely talking about it. We must act. We must act quickly.”
“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”
“Today the eyes of all people are truly upon us—and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, state and local, must be as a city upon a hill—constructed and inhabited by men aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities.”
“A dog starv’d at his master’s gate Predicts the ruin of the state.”
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