Horace Mann: “Enslavement and liberty being incompatible, when he suffers the first, though but for an hour, he is deprived of the…”

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.

I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.

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

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.