“It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.”

“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity. ”

“You may return and tell Sun Quan to wash his neck: the executioner is coming.”

“On and on the Great River rolls, racing east.Of proud and gallant heros its white-tops leave no trace,As right and wrong, pride and fall at once unrealYet ever the green hill stayTo blaze in the west-waning day...”

“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.”

“It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.”

“United we stand, divided we fall”