Henry Ward Beecher: “That which organizes Society as a Democracy and Government, and Republic--or that which organizes Society as an…”

Mariners might as well blame you for the swing and toss of their craft when tides troop in or march out of your harbor, as us, for heaving to that tide which God swells under us.

If the power of producing effects is the criterion of value, the few will always be the most valuable, and the mass relatively, subordinate, and the weak and lowest will be left helplessly worthless.

And now it has come to pass that, in the good providence of God, another opportunity has been presented to the whole North to reassert her place and her influence, and to fill the institutions of our country with their original and proper…

But I think that God sent New-England to these shores as his own messenger of mercy to days and ages, that have yet far to come ere they are born!