Quotes About The Union

#1. I am in favor of admitting any territory into the Union of States as soon as it has fulfilled the requirements of the Constitution and shall petition for admission.

Ambrose Burnside

#2. Because the union of a man and woman deserves an honored place in our society, I support the protection of marriage against activist judges. And I will continue to appoint federal judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the strict interpretation of the law.

George W. Bush

#3. Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it.

James Madison

#4. When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators of modern civilization

Joe Novella

#5. The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.

Edward Everett

#6. There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#7. At the State of the Union address last night, President Obama made history by using the words transgender, lesbian, and bisexual in that speech. It was the part of the speech where he was just reading Craigslist personals.

Conan O'Brien

#8. Did you folks see President Bush's State of the Union Address? How about that surprise announcement? Howard Dean has been captured and he's in the hands of interrogators.

David Letterman

#9. Physiologically, the union of two opposites is a pleasurable affair. Why should the psyche be any different?

Anthony Marais

#10. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.

W.C. Fields

#12. Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.

Artemas Ward

#13. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

#14. [God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

Eusebius

#15. Yoga is the method to bring or uncover the union that exists. That all things are relative and are in relationship and that nothing is singular or by itself.

Rodney Yee

#16. What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.

Susan Eisenhower

#17. Marriage is a contract between 2 people male and female;doing what it takes to make the union work until death due them apart

Martellis Thurmand

#18. The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.

George B. McClellan

#19. The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.

Raphael

#20. The fact that California was the most cosmopolitan state in the union, as a result of the gold rush, simply made white voters more susceptible to racist and xenophobic arguments.

H.W. Brands

#21. Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance ...

George Washington

#22. By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.

Alexander Hamilton

#23. The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.

Theodore Parker

#24. The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life ... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Joseph Addison

#25. He preserved the union and freed the slaves.

Daniel H. Pink

#26. And thus it behoved Eros to put back fun, romance & passion into the union of love. He had to find Himeros, from the sea, from Uranus' cut off testicles, to bring Passion back into the union of love.

Nicholas Chong

#27. As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

Ron Kind

#28. You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

Benjamin Disraeli

#29. The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#30. What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.

Mary Harris Jones

#31. The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Andrew Jackson

#32. If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments.

John Taylor

#33. A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.

Jefferson Davis

#34. The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.

William James

#35. The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord's.

Joseph Glanvill

#36. The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.

Milton Friedman

#37. The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York,

Alison Weir

#38. The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also.

Oscar Wilde

#39. The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.

Keith O'Brien

#40. Take away fear of competition, of failure, of loss of markets, of humiliation, of becoming obsolete, and the culture would r stop; take away the fear the urnon man has of the boss and the union would blow away;

Anonymous

#41. Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union.

Rebecca McClanahan

#42. If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

Salman Rushdie

#43. I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian - for me - for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix.

Barack Obama

#44. Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest,

Washington Irving

#45. I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

Jim Renacci

#46. Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.

Rory Bremner

#47. A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.

Paul Pierce

#48. The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.

John Marshall

#49. I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.

Jim Jordan

#50. There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

Andrew Jackson

#51. It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

J. Reuben Clark

#52. Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.

Larry Bucshon

#53. Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

George Packer

#54. Marriage is the union of two people who arrive toting the luggage of life. And that luggage always contains sin.

Dave Harvey

#55. Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

Randy Neugebauer

#56. Their imperfect record at awards shows was disappointing, sure, but the best prize of all came when, on February 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan name-checked and quoted directly from the movie - where we're going, we don't need roads - in his State of the Union address.

Caseen Gaines

#57. I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.

Aaron Douglas

#58. I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Mahatma Gandhi

#59. Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

Robert Dallek

#60. May this colloquium be an inspiration to all who seek to support and strengthen the union of man and woman in marriage as a unique, natural, fundamental and beautiful good for persons, families, communities, and whole societies.

Pope Francis

#61. God has a funny way of reminding us we're human. [About his impromptu water break during his delivery of the GOP rebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union on February 12, 2013]

Marco Rubio

#62. You are a sinner married to a sinner ... and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers.

Skip Heitzig

#63. Our world is drowning in communication, but starving for genuine communio - the union of true communion.

Michael D. O'Brien

#64. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Olive Schreiner

#65. My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.

Twyla Tharp

#66. The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

James Madison

#67. Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

Charles E. Wilson

#68. I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.

Benjamin Bratt

#69. Fucking?
Sorry. Sexual intercourse? Coitus? The union and rhythm of our genitals?

Jewel E. Ann

#70. As Native Americans, we believe the Rainbow is a sign from the Spirit in all things. It is a sign of the union of all people, like one big family. The unity of all humanity, many tribes and peoples, is essential.

Thomas Banyacya

#71. Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit. This is the essence of the trance dance experience.

Goa Gil

#72. The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.

Alexander Hamilton

#73. 'Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If we are not admitted until then, we shall never be admitted.

Brigham Young

#74. Faith is the union of God and the soul.

John Of The Cross

#75. One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door.

Duncan Hunter

#76. I think the minimum wage will be the centerpiece of the State of Union. I think it should be the centerpiece of the State of the Union. And it should be very focused on that because, as you said, Republicans in the rest of the country are for it.

Robert Gibbs

#77. The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa.

Edward Gibbon

#78. The State of the Union address is always a reminder of how unique America is.

Marco Rubio

#79. If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

Abraham Lincoln

#80. If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

David Harvey

#81. Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Karl Kraus

#82. I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

Abraham Lincoln

#83. 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 some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

Abraham Lincoln

#84. Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#85. By the war's end, some 180,000 blacks had served in the Union Army - over one fifth of the nation's adult male black population under age forty-five.

Eric Foner

#86. The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

Barack Obama

#87. Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

Abraham Lincoln

#88. The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ.

John L. Lewis

#89. The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
[State of the Union Address January 11 1962]

John F. Kennedy

#90. It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.

John H. Reagan

#91. The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

Anton Seidl

#92. Or was the body really in the soul, as Giordano Bruno thought? The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery, and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also. He began to wonder whether we

Oscar Wilde

#93. All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.

Robert E.Lee

#94. To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

Bill Shorten

#95. If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

Andrew Jackson

#96. America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Barack Obama

#97. If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

Abraham Lincoln

#98. I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined.

Bertrand Russell

#99. The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

Mark McKinnon

#100. God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

Jefferson Davis