Horace Mann: “The sentiments of truth and duty will die out, when cunning and falsehood can obtain more gratifications than frankness…”

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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.

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