- Northern Miner: The South would never praise the thinkin' of a man like Abe Lincoln.
- Frederick Kyle: A man who honestly knows what he believes, and has courage enough to act on it, is a man deserving of praise from all men.
- Eric 'Hoss' Cartwright: Pa, that newspaper you was reading the other day in the saloon about what Mr. Lincoln said about a house divided can't stand. I reckon he was talkin' about folks like us.
- Ben Cartwright: No, not us, Hoss. Not us!
- Eric 'Hoss' Cartwright: I just don't understand it. We're all from the same country here, and yet there's still all this talk about North and South. Where's the dividing line?
- Frederick Kyle: I would say the dividing line was in people's minds.
- Ben Cartwright: What about all this trouble that seems to be brewing between the states?
- Frederick Kyle: Not trouble. Mr. Cartwright. It's a prelude to war. Civil War.
- Adam Cartwright: Now do you really think it will come to that, Mr. Kyle?
- Frederick Kyle: There's already talk that some of the states are seceding from the union.
- Ben Cartwright: I hope we'll be spared all that grief out here.
- Adam Cartwright: Where did you say you were from, Mr. Kyle?
- Frederick Kyle: I don't believe I did say, but I'm from Kansas. And it's right in the middle... of everything.
- Ben Cartwright: 'The agitation has not only not ceased, but augmented. In my opinion,' he says, 'it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.' Then he says, 'A house... divided against itself cannot stand.'