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Like Aristides, I would write the vote that should banish me, rather than to fetter or control the voter’s will.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Like Aristides, I would write the vote that should banish me, rather than to fetter or control the voter’s will.”
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Mann expresses his commitment to the principle of free voting, even at the risk of personal banishment.
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