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Famously, eight years before Lincoln's speech, during the Senate debate on the Compromise of 1850, Sam Houston had proclaimed: "A nation divided against itself cannot stand." However and most relevantly, the expression was used repeatedly earlier in 1858 in discussions of the situation in Kansas , where slavery was the central issue.
What then must we say concerning a city or a family, that whether it be great or small, it is destroyed when it is at discord within itself." [2] Hilary of Poitiers: "For a city or family is analogous to a kingdom, as it follows, And every city or house divided against itself shall not stand." [2]
— Abraham Lincoln. 64. “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. ... 87. "Be sure you put your feet in the ...
Accepting the nomination, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on Mark 3:25, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand.", opening lines of Abraham Lincoln's famous 1858 "A House Divided" speech, addressing the division between slave states and free states in the United States at the time. "Four score and seven years ago...", opening of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. [3]
As President Abraham Lincoln warned, a house divided against itself cannot stand. The 2024 presidential election alone looms as a threat to our collective ability to advance.
1858: A House Divided, in which candidate for the U.S. Senate Abraham Lincoln, speaking of the pre-Civil War United States, quoted Matthew 12:25 and said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." 1858: American Infidelity, an anti-slavery speech delivered in the United States Congress by Joshua Giddings; 1859: Abolitionist John Brown's ...
Because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.'" The British entrepreneur is outspoken on many social issues, including the climate crisis and abolishing the death penalty. In a post on X ...