Oliver P. Morton Quote

If it is worth a bloody struggle to establish this nation, it is worth one to preserve it.


Speech (22 November 1860), as quoted in Indiana in the Civil War Era, 1850–1880: History of Indiana III (1995), by Emma Lou Thornbrough. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, p. 102


If it is worth a bloody struggle to establish this nation, it is worth one to preserve it.

If it is worth a bloody struggle to establish this nation, it is worth one to preserve it.

If it is worth a bloody struggle to establish this nation, it is worth one to preserve it.

If it is worth a bloody struggle to establish this nation, it is worth one to preserve it.