Horace Mann: “Would to God we could do as much for the cause of freedom.”

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

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

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.

Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!