Horace Mann: “Greece coveted the arts; Rome gloried in war; but liberty has been the goddess of our idolatry.”

The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.

Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.

But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.

And yet, infinitely flagrant as the anomaly is, the slave is amenable to the laws of the land for all offences which he may commit against others, though he is powerless to protect himself by the same law from offences which others may…