Christine Gregoire Quotes

We are going to stand together, united.

It is time for us to come together as one united people.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

Our nation must come together to unite.

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

All the brothers shall stand together all shall be responsible for the action of each one.

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.

Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or even a smaller number, of separate communities, we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions; communications between distant points and sections obstructed or cut off; our sons made soldiers to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace...The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.

Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

If we do not act together, we will surely perish.

The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture.

An old American patriot described today’s situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, “we must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

It's time for us to come together, time for us to come together around this good man [Donald Trump].

I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart.

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.

All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.