Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided.
India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards the Arctic is divided by the mountain chain of Hmdus from Scythia, inhabited by that tribe of Scythians who are called Sakai; and on the fourth side, turned towards the West, the Indus marks the boundary, the biggest or nearly so of all rivers after the Nile.
We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.
The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.
Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams.
Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
In America, we have a divided nation. We have a very divided nation.
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brainleft brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into right and left hemispheres, but the fact is that the two hemispheres of the brain do specialize in certain functions.
We are so divided, and we recognize that we're divided, that we're looking for ways to come together.
All Gaul is divided into three parts.
A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.
President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.