Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this.
 Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address (1 December 1862). copy citation

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Author Abraham Lincoln
Source State of the Union Address
Topic country secession wall
Date 1 December 1862
Language English
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