Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Cleveland, Ohio." Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 216.
“Factions” was the word for Political Parties then. Henry, George Washington and other founding fathers were opposed to political parties, while Madison and others thought they needed to controlled. Jefferson thought parties to be important. So there was no uniform consensus among the Founding Fathers. This has his last public speech before his death.
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.