American slavery Quote by Abraham Lincoln

I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could…

— Sam Houston

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could…

— Abraham Lincoln

Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.

— Artemas Ward

I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.

— James K. Polk

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in…

— Kevin O'Leary

Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by…

— Abraham Lincoln

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian…

— Richard Llewellyn

I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils…

— Robert E. Lee

For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it…

— Zachary Taylor

“Our Federal Union - It Must Be Preserved”

— Andrew Jackson

The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of…

— John C. Calhoun

If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of…

— Theodore Roosevelt