I've heard it all my life but can't remember who said it. If you know, do you also know in what context it was said?
2006-07-29 13:34:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Abraham Lincoln
June 1858
Lincoln delivered this famous speech, noted for the phrase "a house divided against itself cannot stand," when accepting the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate from Illinois in June of 1858. In July of that year he challenged his Democrat opponent, Stephen Douglas to a series of debates over admitting Kansas into the union as a slave state, and, to a large extent, over the future of slavery and of the union itself. Lincoln, of course, represented the anti-slavery position. The skill with which Lincoln debated Douglas helped catapult him to the Republican Party's nomination for president in 1860, a race which he won.
2006-07-29 13:37:32 · answer #1 · answered by Ferret 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Abraham Lincoln 1858
2006-07-29 20:40:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lincoln
2006-07-29 20:40:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lincoln.
2006-07-29 20:37:22 · answer #4 · answered by bumpocooper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Abe Lincoln and the quote is a house divided.
2006-07-29 20:43:05 · answer #5 · answered by jadeaaustin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think it is Abe Lincoln in the Gettysburg address
2006-07-29 21:04:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham Lincoln Use google instead of posting dumb Q's here!
2006-07-29 20:38:51 · answer #7 · answered by newsgirlinos2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋