Attributed to Edward Everett Hale in: United States. President (1922). Addresses of the President of the U.S. and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. p. 80
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
Variant: Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 20 March 2020 https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---20-march-2020, World Health Organization.
Second inaugural address (January 20, 1997)
1990s
Context: Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
“Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together”
Source: Presidency (1977–1981), Inaugural Address (1977)
Context: Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.
“Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem… They work together in teams.”
Brace Yourself: The Five Heresies
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)
“If you can laugh together, you can work together.”
Christine Arpe Gang, Scripps Howard News Service (August 7, 1995) "Healing gift of humor isn't a laughing matter: Chuckling is linked to good times, good health", Houston Chronicle, p. 8.
Attributed
La verdadera unidad de los matrimonios y aun de las parejas la traen las palabras, más que las palabras dichas—dichas voluntariamente—, las palabras que no se callan—que no se callan sin que nuestra voluntad intervenga—.
Source: Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White] (1992), p. 132
““Men work together,” I told him from the heart,
“Whether they work together or apart.””
The Tuft of Flowers http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/frost/section2.rhtml
General sources
Source: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 5: The Iambic Pentameter (p. 28)
