On the record
Let the greatest coward see that his threats are acknowledged as verities, and he will adopt the cheap mode of threatening instead of the hazardous one of acting.
Source
gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Let the greatest coward see that his threats are acknowledged as verities, and he will adopt the cheap mode of…”
Editor's note · Context
Mann suggests that acknowledging threats can embolden cowards to rely on intimidation rather than action.
Share
More from Horace Mann
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
But such largesses to slavery as kings could not afford to give, and the robbery of an entire race of all its rights,--yes, and with authority, too, to make us help commit the robbery,--these are “factitious and imaginary” causes of…
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Other voices in this conversation
