Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Lincoln, Abraham. "'House Divided' Speech at Springfield, Illinois." 16 June 1858. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 2, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 461.
See also Matthew 12:25. Quoted by Abraham Lincoln in his speech to the Republican State Convention, Springfield, IL, June 16, 1858
Compare Mark 3:25, above, and Abraham Lincoln's use of the phrase in one of his most famous speeches.
This is a variant of the famous Lincoln quotation, {619494}. Houston did not use the word “house” as had Lincoln but surely, as did Lincoln, was familiar with The Book of Mathew {606727}. Houston however gave his speech BEFORE Lincoln.
The debate had come to an impasse over the issue of voting and taxation by state equally or proportional to the population. Witherspoon warned of the consequence of there being no agreement on some form of unity.
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
