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Now, let this doctrine be applied; for I hold it to be no unwarrantable invasion of private character to apply these principles to public men.
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Mann advocates for applying moral principles to public figures without infringing on personal privacy.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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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