Horace Mann: “Ignorance, superstition, vulgarity, passion, and perhaps impurity, are the breasts at which they nurse.”

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.

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.