–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.

–Mahatma Gandhi

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. –

–Father Andre

He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.

–Sun Tzu

“Unity without verity [truth] is no better than conspiracy” (cited in The Golden Treasury of Puritan Quotations, p. 304).

A.W. Tozer

“The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? … The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this” (The Best of A.W. Tozer, p. 72).

http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Quotes/qunity.htm

“We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall also hang separately.”

Franklin also wrote,seven years later, in a letter to ‘Quincy:’

“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.”

   a little later…. Thought of another, from “The King and I:”

“Should I join with other country in alliance?

If ally is weak, am I not best alone?

If ally is strong with powers to protect me,

Might he not protect me out of all I own?”

That’s from memory.