Horace Mann: “If both these hopes fail, our country is doomed to run its unobstructed career of conquest, of despotism, and of infamy.”

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.

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

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…

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