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If such ideas once got possession of a man’s mind, do you think that fire or water could ever burn them or drown them out?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “If such ideas once got possession of a man’s mind, do you think that fire or water could ever burn them or drown them…”
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Mann asserts that once a person grasps the concept of liberty, it becomes an indelible part of their consciousness.
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My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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