Robert Winthrop

Robert Winthrop
Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives
"Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled either by a power within them or by a power without them; either by the Word of God or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible or by the bayonet."
(Source: Robert Winthrop, Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1852),
p. 172 from his "Either by the Bible or the Bayonet.")