With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
Lincoln-Douglas Debates Scrapbook, 1858
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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 become all one thing, or all the other.