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Pecuniary surrenders I would gladly make for the sake of peace, but not for peace itself would I surrender liberty.
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Mann asserts that he would sacrifice financial gain for the sake of liberty, emphasizing the importance of freedom over peace.
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Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
The dearest and most precious of all human rights is the right of private judgment in matters of religion.
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