Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky:
Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!
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Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky:
Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!
Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel,
The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!

Then join in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Then join in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and read more

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Their meetings made December June.
Their every parting was to die.

Their meetings made December June.
Their every parting was to die.

There with commutual zeal we both had strove
In acts of dear benevolence and love;
Brothers in read more

There with commutual zeal we both had strove
In acts of dear benevolence and love;
Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
- George Colman ("The Younger"),

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
- George Colman ("The Younger"),

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang
separately.

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang
separately.

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out read more

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible
union disposed of indestructible States.

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible
union disposed of indestructible States.