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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.

    Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858
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