On the record
In this government, it is not tolerable for any man, however high, or for any body of men, however large, to prescribe what subjects may be agitated, and what may not be agitated.
Source
gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “In this government, it is not tolerable for any man, however high, or for any body of men, however large, to prescribe…”
Editor's note · Context
Mann argues that no individual or group should dictate which topics can be discussed in government.
Share
More from Horace Mann
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…
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
Other voices in this conversation
