Quotes About Union

I am marrying her because I love her.

Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence

A marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation. Every creature seeks its perfection in another. The very heavens and earth picture it to us.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. -Ephesians 5:31

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. -Matthew 19:6

Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Philip V. was left upon the throne of Spain, with the condition that the crowns of Spain and France should never be united. The

We must make a heroic effort to rid our lives of all but one motive, that "impractical" spirituality of the saints, a life in union with God.

Why did we get married? What is the point of it? What are the rules involved?

Marriage is not an invention of men, but a divine institution, and

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

A few months later, Everett followed up with another missive repeating the argument that while this war may not be an abolitionist one on the Union's part due to constitutional restraints, it was a proslavery one on the Confederacy's part.

Everett's stature as an orator and statesman, and in particular his association with commemorations at vital American historical sites, meant he was the unanimous choice of all seventeen Union state governors whom the organizing committee consulted.

A war to end slavery seems more compelling" to twenty-first-century Americans and far less abstract than a war for union.

Everett scholar Ronald Reid's survey of 260 newspapers throughout the Union states showed that editorial comments emphasized Everett's speech over Lincoln's.

He thus rejected union versus abolition as a false choice and adopted as his pseudonym the rather wordy but telling "A FRIEND OF THE UNION, AND AN ENEMY OF SLAVERY."34

the Union of these States—Monarchs form alliances—Republics form leagues—but here, behold a band of brothers.