 | Alexander Johnston - 1884 - 430 頁
...majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. * * * Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between... | |
 | Edward Millican - 292 頁
...with its warning of the dire consequences of secession: "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. ... A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of...the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 頁
...that manifest, Lincoln persisted in the belief. "Physically speaking, we cannot separate," he claimed. "We cannot remove our respective sections from each...other, nor build an impassable wall between them." He argued: "A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - 1995 - 418 頁
...permanent geographical condition, ensures the states' survival as separate entities: Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 頁
...Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p. 252. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between... | |
 | Luke Mancuso - 1997 - 180 頁
...balances" but rather offered a domestic image to illustrate the stakes in keeping the Union whole: "A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of...the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - 1998 - 694 頁
...explanation. He quoted from his inaugural address the moving passage that begins, "Physically speaking we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...the different parts of our country cannot do this." On to the end. When he first addressed that solemn warning to the South there had been no fighting.... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 頁
...would not be surrendered at all by the other. Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor...each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can not but remain face to face, and intercourse, cither amicable or hostile,... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - 2000 - 272 頁
...union, and abhors separation.32 His First Inaugural Address also sounds this note: Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 頁
...to the world the probability of the revival of that nefarious traffic.77 [26] Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...the reach of each other; but the different parts of the country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or... | |
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Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different... 
