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"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. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Stefens criticized people for believe that government corruption could not be stoped
When Abraham Lincoln said that a house divided against itself could not stand, he was referring to the issue of slavery. He did not believe the US government could endure operating with one half allowing slavery and the other not.
He criticized people for believing that government corruption could not be stopped
He criticized people for believing that government corruption could not be stopped.
Abraham Lincoln did not want slavery to continue and he wanted to preserve the Union but unfortunately he was assassinated before he could do so, he also wrote the emancipation proclamation.
Dictatorship
The country could not continue to exist as a nation if a state could secede anytime it wished.
no country could continue to exist as a nation if a state could secede anytime it wished -Blissful
Abraham Lincoln believed that all peoples were covered by the Declaration of Independence. He argued that if Blacks could be excluded then other people could also be excluded. In that situation, Lincoln argued that no group was safe.
that the ideas of the Enlightenment could help improve government and society
He criticized people for believing that government corruption could not be stopped
The exact company or store where Abraham Lincoln bought his hats is unknown. However, some believe he could have bought it from a popular hat store in the 1800s.