
The Flag of our Union, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
1860s, Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)
The Flag of our Union, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
On the Irrepressible Conflict (1858)
Context: The Union is a confederation of States. But in another aspect the United States constitute only one nation. Increase of population, which is filling the States out to their very borders, together with a new and extended network of railroads and other avenues, and an internal commerce which daily becomes more intimate, is rapidly bringing the States into a higher and more perfect social unity or consolidation. Thus, these antagonistic systems are continually coming into closer contact, and collision results.
Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), Q&A
2000s, The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002), Q&A
Texas v. White http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/11/constitution-check-can-texas-get-constitutional-permission-to-leave-the-union/
June 17
Addresses to the Virginia Ratifying Convention (1788)
“The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.”
2015, State of the Union Address (January 2015)
Texas v. White, 7 Wallace, 725 (1869)
“It is you, our citizens, who make the state of our union strong.”
2014, Sixth State of the Union Address (January 2014)
Context: Tonight this chamber speaks with one voice to the people we represent: It is you, our citizens, who make the state of our union strong.