Horace Mann: “Is free speech to be only on one side; and is it one of the offices of free speech to silence the sentiments it…”

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

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

Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.

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.