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One more element to human liberty is contributed by Christianity, in the solemn development of man's accountability to God, by which condition hereafter springs from pure character here.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Beecher asserts that Christianity enhances human liberty by emphasizing accountability to God and the moral implications of one's character.
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If the North gives to the Nation her radical principles of human rights and democratic Governments, there will be the peace of an immeasurable prosperity.
Northern ideas must become American, or Southern ideas must become American, before there will be peace.
And if by an insane blindness you shall contrive to put off the issue, and send this unsettled dispute down to your children, it will go down, gathering volume and strength at every step, to waste and desolate their heritage.
Two great powers that will not live together are in our midst, and tugging at each other's throats.