Century Quote by Zachary Taylor

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

As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.

— William Habington

“When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the…

— Daniel Webster

“It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that…

— George Washington

For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And…

— Paul Eldridge

“That old unionism was, however, very different from the kind we live with now. We do not live with an ideal, sometimes on the…

— Robert Penn Warren

I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth…

— Sam Houston

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading…

— David McCullough

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

— Patrick Henry

The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it…

— Herbert Hoover

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted,…

— Robert E. Lee