Union Promise

Famous quotes containing the words union and/or promise:

“I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be “the Union as it was.””
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)