A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
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Abraham Lincoln
16th US president (1809-1865). A self-educated frontier lawyer who became the first Republican president, led the Union through civil war, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and was assassinated in 1865.
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Source: House Divided Speech (1858年6月16日、イリノイ州共和党大会)Verified