Political Quotes

On the record
It is as necessary that the man whom I would convince should be in a calm state of mind, as that I should be in such a state myself.
Said by
Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann highlights the importance of maintaining a calm demeanor for effective persuasion in discussions.

Share

More from Horace Mann

This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.

gutenberg.org

Is there not one spot where we can stand side by side, as friends, sympathize with each other, and act together in harmony?

gutenberg.org

The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.

gutenberg.org

Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation