Henry Ward Beecher: “We turn out any law, and say, Discuss it! that it may be the stronger!”

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.

Dying, we will leave it a legacy to our children, and they shall will it to theirs, until the work is done, our fathers' prayers are answered, and this whole land stands clothed and in its right mind--a symbol of what the earthly fruits of…

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.