Horace Mann Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.

  Horace Mann

  Apples, Law, Effort

  "The Albany Law Journal", Vol. XLIX, (p. 47), January - June 1894.

• As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.

  Horace Mann

  Christian, Wise, Gratitude

• Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

  Horace Mann

  Spring, Ambition, Men

  Horace Mann (2008). “Slavery”, p.33, Applewood Books

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