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Along with the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address, the speech became one of the best-known of his career. It begins with the following words, which became the best-known passage of the speech: [8] "A house divided against itself, cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
"Together we stand, divided we fall" is repeated various times in the song "Killing ground" by longtime English metal band Saxon. Divided We Fall and United We Stand are events in the Marvel Comics series Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates. The phrase also appeared in the "United We Stand" episode of Power Rangers Megaforce.
The song is notable as one of the earliest patriotic songs in the Thirteen Colonies.Dickinson's seventh verse offers the earliest known publication of the phrase that parallels the motto "united we stand, divided we fall", a patriotic slogan that has prominently appeared several times throughout U.S. history.
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips.
"They shall not pass" (French: Ils ne passeront pas and French: On ne passe pas; Romanian: Pe aici nu se trece; Spanish: No pasarán) is a slogan, notably used by France in World War I, to express a determination to defend a position against an enemy.
21. "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 22. "Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so ...
Jerome: "The Pharisees ascribed the works of God to the Prince of the dæmons; and the Lord makes answer not to what they said, but to what they thought, that even thus they might be compelled to believe His power, Who saw the secrets of the heart; Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said unto them."
One might as well throw water into the sea as to do a kindness to rogues; One law for the rich and another for the poor; Opportunity does not knock until you build a door; One swallow does not make a summer; One who believes in Sword, dies by the Sword; One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people.