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Quotation from House Divided Speech by Abraham Lincoln
“I do not expect the Union to be dissolved,--I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.”
House Divided Speech, Paragraph 1 (Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, Everyman's Library (1907))
His prediction that the crisis will end in the nation becoming wholly free or wholly slave.
Citation: "I do not expect the Union to be dissolved,--I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other." — Abraham Lincoln, House Divided Speech, Paragraph 1 (Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, Everyman's Library (1907)). (id house-divided-speech-q2)
Portrait: Abraham Lincoln LCCN2002717219, Popular Graphic Arts, Public domain.
