William Ellery Channing Quotes
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
Channing, William Ellery. "Duties of the Citizen in Times of Trial or Danger." The Works of William E. Channing, D.D., vol. 5, James Munroe and Company, 1841, p. 415.
Following the assassination of James A. Garfield:
In a particularly acrimonious House debate on the largest military appropriations bill in the history of the country, the speaker limited an opponent to 45 seconds to argue against the pending bill. Jacobs shouted his protest:
William Ellery Channing was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton (1786–1853), one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. Channing was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches, and as a prominent thinker in the liberal theology of the day. His religion and thought were among the chief influences on the New England Transcendentalists although he never countenanced their views, which he saw as extreme. He espoused, especially in his "Baltimore Sermon" of May 5, 1819, given at the ordination of the theologian and educator Jared Sparks (1789–1866) as the first minister of the newly organized First Independent Church of Baltimore, the principles and tenets of the developing philosophy and theology of Unitarianism, leading to the organization in 1825 of the first Unitarian denomination in America (American Unitarian Association) and the later developments and mergers between Unitarians and Universalists, resulting finally in the Unitarian Universalist Association of America in 1961.
