Horace Mann: “All our substantial, industrious classes are above this temptation, and would spurn it if they were not above it.”

A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!