“The United States is, not are.”

The Civil War was fought over a verb. Orval Faubus don't know that. But he gonna know, he gonna know.
Comments at the centennial celebration of the Lincoln-Douglas debates; Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, Oct. 7, 1958. Quoted in Herbert Mitgang, "Again—Lincoln v. Douglas", The New York Times Magazine, Oct. 19, 1958, pp. 26-27.

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