Faith writes:
It's crossed my mind that we may have to go back to the methods of medieval times and start dotting the landscape with fortified castles to protect ourselves from each other.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half "Right" and half "Left". I do not expect the Union to be dissolved I do not expect the house to fall but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of hate will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new "Right" as well as "Left".
To paraphrase perhaps the best President you lot ever had.