Horace Mann: “Have they no need of consolation, of faith in the Unseen, to help them bear up under the burdens and anxieties of life?”

Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

But such largesses to slavery as kings could not afford to give, and the robbery of an entire race of all its rights,--yes, and with authority, too, to make us help commit the robbery,--these are “factitious and imaginary” causes of…

My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.