“The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity to one of them can operate without extending its influence to the others. All these interests are alike under the protecting power of the legislative authority, and the duties of the representative bodies are to conciliate them in harmony together.” BodyTogetherNationsCausesInterestInfluenceDutyAuthorityHarmonyUnionsProsperityPermanentRepresentativesLinkedManufacturingExtending Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.” MindFirstsHumansHeartSaidTwoStatesPoliticalHumanityNationsUnderstandingSawsShareHuman NatureDutyMy HeartMetsConcernUniversalUnionsIncludingEightCampaignsPresidentialContinuingSeventiesInvolvementFirst LadyPolitical LifePresidential Campaign Author:Hillary Clinton
“If there are rights or duties of people which are not guaranteed because they're part of a [de facto] union and not of a family, there will be the need of a legislative action to remove the disparity. Obviously, when talking about people I refer to everyone [including homosexuals].” PeopleIfsNeedsActionTalkingRightsDutyUnionsIncludingRemoveHomosexualDisparity Author:Gianfranco Fini
“[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.” IfsPresidentDutyElectionUnionsCan NotSecuredInauguration Book:Conversations With Lincoln Source: Conversations With Lincoln
“To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.” MenTryingPersonsWholeGovernmentActingInformationDutyUnionsMotiveExecutivesResortsRight PlaceBest PersonBest Of MeRight Man Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament or sign and instrument of intimate union with God, of the unity of the whole of mankind, and of the personal duty to adhere more closely to her.” WholeLightChurchMankindAwarenessDutyUnderstoodInstrumentsUnionsUnityMissionsFaithfulIntimateSacramentsVocation Author:Pope John Paul II
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.” IfsMenPurposeWishDutyUnionsSlaveLeavingCivil WarOfficialsIf I CouldAmerican Civil WarModification Author:Abraham Lincoln