Horace Mann: “This is an honor that no rival can ever snatch from her brow.”

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.

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

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

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