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Prince De Ligne: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.— ABRAHAM LINCOLN — Speech, June 17,

1858. See W. O. Stoddard's Life of Lincoln. That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government ( of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.— ABRAHAM LINCOLN — Speech at

Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863. All your strength is in your union, All your danger is in discord.— LONGFELLOW — The Song of Hiawatha. I. L. 112.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.— MACAULAY — On Mitford's History of

Greece, 1824. The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.— SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH — Vindiciæ Gallica. Sec. I.