Henry Ward Beecher: “And a State that will be damaged by free speech ought to be damaged.”

And aroused by that spirit, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of men that have not bowed the knee to Baal--and we will war it to the knife, and knife to the hilt.

All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing and compromising are in vain.

Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.

These are symptoms only, not the disease; the effects, not the causes.