Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom

Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom

I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States.
I always use the word "Union" or read more

I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States.
I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." We are not a
nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and read more

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky:
Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!
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Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky:
Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!
Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel,
The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are
united in their objects and wishes.
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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are
united in their objects and wishes.
[Lat., Neque est ullum certius amicitiae vinculum, quam consensus
et societas consiliorum et voluntatum.,]

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, read more

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not
with me scattereth.

He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not
with me scattereth.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
- George Colman ("The Younger"),

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
- George Colman ("The Younger"),