Horace Mann: “Finding where the preponderance of forces lies, they attach themselves to the stronger.”

Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.

A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.

The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.

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