...majority principle, anarchy or despotism, in some form, is all that is left. * * * Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or...

...that manifest, Lincoln persisted in the belief. "Physically speaking, we cannot separate," he claimed. "We cannot remove our respective sections from each...other, nor build an impassable wall between them." He argued: "A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory...

...permanent geographical condition, ensures the states' survival as separate entities: Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or...

...Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 4, p. 252. Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990). Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or...

...balances" but rather offered a domestic image to illustrate the stakes in keeping the Union whole: "A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of...the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or...

...in all the states. "Physically speaking, we cannot separate. The different parts of our country must remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable...hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible to make that intercourse more advantageous after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier...

...explanation. He quoted from his inaugural address the moving passage that begins, "Physically speaking we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this." On to the end. When he first addressed that solemn warning to the South...

...would not be surrendered at all by the other. Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor...the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can not but remain face to face, and intercourse, cither amicable...

...union, and abhors separation.32 His First Inaugural Address also sounds this note: Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective...the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or...

...extended. This is the only substantial dispute. . . . Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor...the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can not but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable...