<h3>"A HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND."</h3>
<p>This often-quoted passage was uttered in June, 1857, at Springfield,
Illinois, during Lincoln's congressional campaign:</p>
<p>"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe that this
government cannot endure permanently, half-slave and half-free. I do
not expect this house to fall: I do not expect the Union to be
dissolved. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become
one thing or the other."
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