"A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. 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, 1858
“It will become all one thing or all the other.”
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The Republican Party has no opinion on the matter. They don’t believe in anything.