When did Abraham Lincoln speak these words? "A house divided
against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot ensue
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."
when he gave a campaign speech
at the Lincoln-Douglass debates
O at his first presidential inauguration
when he accepted the senatorial nomination
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