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Greece coveted the arts; Rome gloried in war; but liberty has been the goddess of our idolatry.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Greece coveted the arts; Rome gloried in war; but liberty has been the goddess of our idolatry.”
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Mann reflects on the historical aspirations of Greece, Rome, and America, noting liberty as America's central value.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
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