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英语说－－－－家庭不睦，万事不兴。

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

该谚语又是与林肯有关。1858年6月16日，他老人家做了个报告......


From: The Free Dictionary

The House Divided Speech was an address given by future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, on 16 June 1858, in Springfield, Illinois, upon accepting the Republican nomination for United States Senate. The speech became the launching point for his unsuccessful campaign for Senate against Stephen A. Douglas. The speech created a lasting image of the danger of disunion because of slavery, and it rallied Republicans across the North. Along with the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address, this became one of the best-known speeches of his career.


The speech contains the quotation "A house divided against itself cannot stand", which is taken from Matthew 12:25: "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand". Lincoln was referring to the division of the country between slave and free states. The "house divided" phrase had been used by others before. Eight years before Lincoln's speech, during the Senate debate on the Compromise of 1850, Sam Houston had proclaimed: "A nation divided against itself cannot stand".


..."A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, 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. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South....