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All history and experience affirm that they have come, and must come, from people among whom education is most generous and unconfined.
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Mann emphasizes that progress and innovation arise from societies that prioritize education.
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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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
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