National Disunity Quotes

The rapid decay of our currency, the extinction of public spirit, the increasing rapacity of the times, the want of harmony in our council, the declining zeal of the people, the discontents and distresses of the officers of the army, and, I may add, the prevailing security and insensibility to danger are symptoms, in my eye, of a most alarming nature.

The principle [secession] itself is one of disintegration, and upon which no government can possibly endure

Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

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

I come from a fragmented society. A country proud to serve as a bridge between Europe and Asia yet unable to bridge its own differences.

I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken.

Trump is an anathema to America's democracy and values.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.

The Democrats are besides themselves because they don't understand Trump. They don't understand: you don't get between the American people - because Americans are upset.

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.

What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.

We are in really bad shape as a country. We are not respected around the world. We are not respected in our own country.

Trump makes no pretense about being the commander in chief of all of the country, being president of all of the people, including the people who voted against him. He is, in effect, a tribal chieftain who has declared war on half of the country.

Simply put, a Trump presidency is unthinkable.

Let us look the danger fairly in the face. Secession is neither more nor less than revolution.

Look at what the divisiveness of Brexit has done to the U.K.

Donald Trump:President of the Divided States of America

Donald Trump is anathema to America.

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

France is sunk in grief, the people are suffering and the Monarch cries out. Parliament is demanding the Estates-General and the Nation cannot come to an agreement. There is no consensus on electing these assemblies. All these altercations are hobbling the welfare that the State expects from these lights.

It’s frightening. Our politics, because of him [Donald Trump], is defending to a level of a third world country. There’s just nothing beneath him.