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Let me ask any man who ever had a case in court that was worth defending, whether he was prepared to meet it the first hour he had notice of its existence?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Let me ask any man who ever had a case in court that was worth defending, whether he was prepared to meet it the first…”
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Mann questions the preparedness of individuals to defend themselves in legal matters without adequate notice.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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.
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