Union Quotes

• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Slave
  • Union
  • Freeing

• Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Dust
  • Union
  • Openings

• Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Purpose
  • Union
  • Admonish

• I am thrilled to be honored by the Screen Actors Guild because I've been with it for such a long time. The Screen Actors Guild is sort of a highfalutin name for a union, and this union was always wonderful to work for. For the rank-and-file of the union to honor me is the best compliment I can receive.

  

  Karl Malden
  • Compliment
  • Receive
  • Honored

• The force of union conquers all.

  

  Homer
  • Force
  • Union
  • Conquers

• The union of a want and a sentiment.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Want
  • Union
  • Sentiment

• The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected

  

  William Hall
  • Union
  • Sexes
  • Fullness

• Blood is the rose of mysterious union.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Blood
  • Mysterious
  • Union

• Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Generations
  • Americans
  • Declaration of Independence

• Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Liberty
  • Constitution
  • Human Heart

• The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.

  

  Michael Hastings
  • Fire
  • Idea
  • Direct

• 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
  • Union
  • Favor
  • Restored

• The role we play is savior of the union.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Play
  • Role
  • Union

• Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Prayer
  • Union

• Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Marriage
  • Union
  • Sexual Attributes

• Dude, you can't get everybody here to agree to join a union. We couldn't even agree on a theme for our summer barbecue. Ended up being 1980s Arabian Nights Under The Sea Harry Potter.

  

  Colton Dunn
  • Agree
  • Cannot
  • Join

• In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Moving
  • Opposition

• Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

  

  Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder
  • Union
  • Promote
  • Euro

• A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

  

  Confucius
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Union

• Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Americans
  • Lovers
  • Union

• I say that it is only by commercial union, reciprocal preference, that you can lay the foundations of the confederation of the Empire to which we all look forward as a brilliant possibility.

  

  Joseph Chamberlain
  • Foundation
  • Empire
  • Preference

• The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.

  

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
  • Together
  • Free
  • Form

• It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but even here, God is seen as the object of his own love. It is yet another step to realize that God is beyond all subject and object and is Himself love without subject or object. This is the step beyond our highest experiences of love and union, a step in which self is not around to divide, separate, objectify or claim anything for itself. Self does not know God; it cannot love him, and from the beginning has never done so.

  

  Bernadette Roberts
  • God
  • Love
  • Persons

• The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Desire
  • Purpose

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