„Für die Wirksamkeit und Beständigkeit Ihrer Union ist eine Regierung für das Ganze unabdingbar.“
Original
To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable.
1790s, Farewell Address (1796)
Kontext: To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions, which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns.
George Washington 52
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„Wenn die Union in Schwierigkeiten ist, muss es immer der Türke ausbaden.“
http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/union-will-mit-thema-zuwanderung-punkten/2514858.html?p2514858=all Handelsblatt 19.06.2005,
„Die Regierung besteht aus uns; wir sind die Regierung, du und ich.“
in einem Brief an Horace Greeley vom 22. August 1862. Zitiert von Berthold Seewald Wie Abraham Lincoln die Sklavenhalter provozierte http://www.welt.de/kultur/history/article10708318/Wie-Abraham-Lincoln-die-Sklavenhalter-provozierte.html?wtmc=RSS.Kultur.Geschichte. Welt Online, 5. November 2010.
Original englisch: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union." - Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;cc=lincoln;type=simple;rgn=div1;q1=greeley;singlegenre=All;view=text;subview=detail;sort=occur;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A848
„Der Union fehlt es an Respekt vor hart arbeitenden Menschen.“
über die CDU, Stern Nr. 27/2007 vom 28. Juni 2007, S. 42
