"God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union."
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"When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it."
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"Gabrielle Union is my best friend."
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"The union of a want and a sentiment."
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"China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China."
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"Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago."
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"I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy."
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"Owes unions who endorsed him; that's why he's in politics."
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"Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated."
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"For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans."
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"If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?"
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"Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving."
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"We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself."
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"[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards."
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"Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself."
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"You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union."
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"The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776."
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"There is also this great sense of triumphalism, that just as we defeated the Soviet Union, we can do this. And out of this sense of desperation and pathological religion, there develops an all-encompassing drive to harm and hurt, without regard for the innocent and the uninvolved, which was the case in New York."
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"If you're looking for messages, try Western Union."
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"Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity."
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