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 become all one thing, or all the other.
Abraham Lincoln
https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/house.htm
Majicman Notes 
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