Horace Mann: “Though they who return unharmed from the field of battle may have done as many and as noble deeds, yet it is the wounded…”

The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.

Her black children have sucked her so dry, that now, for a long time past, she has not milk enough for her offspring, either black or white.

But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.

He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.