a house divided cannot stand
- a house divided cannot stand
With allusion to MATTHEW xii. 25 (AV) Every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.
a 1050 DEFENSOR Liber Scintillarum (EETS) 133 Drihten segth..ælc ceaster oththe hus todæled ongean hit sylf, hit na stynt.
c 1704 in T. Chalkley Journal in Works (1751) 42 My Mother would often say, A House divided could not stand.
1858 A. LINCOLN Speech 16 June in Works (1953) II. 461 ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
2001 Times 12 Dec. 17 A house divided against itself cannot stand. And if Britain is to provide a secure home for all its peoples, there must be a shared sense of what values the nation holds in common.
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