Union quotes

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.