Eamon de Valera Quotes
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.
De Valera, Éamon. Speech on Partition. Speeches and Statements by Eamon de Valera 1917-1973, edited by Maurice Moynihan, Gill and Macmillan, 1980, p. 550.
This is a variant of the famous Lincoln quotation, {619494}. Houston did not use the word “house” as had Lincoln but surely, as did Lincoln, was familiar with The Book of Mathew {606727}. Houston however gave his speech BEFORE Lincoln.
Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain
See also Matthew 12:25. Quoted by Abraham Lincoln in his speech to the Republican State Convention, Springfield, IL, June 16, 1858
Compare Mark 3:25, above, and Abraham Lincoln's use of the phrase in one of his most famous speeches.
There was an active secession movement by the Western States. New Orleans was then controlled by the Spanish who would not allow U.S. goods access to export from New Orleans. Some of the wealthier Western citizens thought that they would fare better as a vassal state of Spain rather than part of the newly formed United States. Jefferson, did not overreact and the movement for secession faded.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Éamon de Valera was a prominent statesman and political leader in 20th-century Ireland, serving several terms as head of government and head of state, with a prominent role introducing the Constitution of Ireland.
