Divided Nation Quotes

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure half slave and half free.

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

They have already made the decision to go to war and to them that is the only option... our country is divided at this point and God only knows what will happen.

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, we'd understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.

The old Republican Party is gone. It's now Trump's party.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.

After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

Our investments in social justice and basic needs are as vital to our future as fiscal and macroeconomic reforms. A nation deeply divided will not stand. And it certainly will not move forward.

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

The day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, I woke up determined to make a success of Brexit. I was surprised by how quickly I went to acceptance of the result, without passing through any of the prior stages of grief.

We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.

The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

Some places seem to have a civil war habit.

We now live in a very polarized nation, divided not between Republicans and Democrats but between those who want to defend our liberties and those who want to defend politically correct stupidities.

There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.

While America may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.