Originally Posted by billsaw

They who would give up essential scope for temporary pay, deserve neither pay nor scope.


Shall we expect some transatlantic airline giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the airlines of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their company chest; with a Spohr for CEO, could not by force, take a flight to Ohio, or lay a contrail across the Blue Ridge Mountains, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.