Henry Ward Beecher: “It is a society of classes, and a society of classes can never be a community.”

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

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.

Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!

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