There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. And in this case, also, th… - James Russell Lowell

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

To be told that we ought not to agitate the question of Slavery, when it is that which is forever agitating us, is like telling a man with the fever and ague on him to stop shaking and he will be cured. The discussion of Slavery is said to be dangerous, but dangerous to what?...Discussion is the very life of free institutions, the fruitful mother of all political and moral enlightenment, and yet the question of all questions must be tabooed.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink
Half his present repute for the freedom to think,
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak, Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store, Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.