Plato Quotes

The extremists wanted to divide France; it came together.

My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

Unity is Obama's theme.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

A nation divided against itself cannot stand.

Each secession destroys the unity of a nation.

The Constitution was framed under the dominion of a political philosophy... It was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy..

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

Should the idea get abroad that there is likely to be no union among us, it will damp the minds of the people, diminish the glory of our struggle, and lessen its importance; because it will open to our view future prospects of war and dissension among ourselves

As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

I think a lot of folks are beginning to feel that the forces that are tearing us apart in this country are stronger than the forces that tie us together. I don't believe that.

Too many prefer to cling to the thing that divides us, and precious few are willing to come together over the thing that unites us.

My job is to make sure our caucus and our movement is united. That means not bringing up divisive issues that would divide even our own party.

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

I'm always suspicious of politics dividing people instead of bringing them together.

I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then I think that we move the country forward and when we are divided and our politics is focused on dividing, then I think we're less successful, not just from the perspective of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but from the perspective of the nation as a whole.

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

Nothing frightens the 'Jews' more than a perfect unity in others: the unity of feeling in a movement, in a people. That is why they will always be for 'democracy' which has but one advantage, and that one for the nation's enemy. For democracy will break up the unity and spirit of a people.