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On this account, that man is to be adjudged cruel, who does not favor liberty.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “On this account, that man is to be adjudged cruel, who does not favor liberty.”
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Mann argues that anyone who does not support liberty is deserving of condemnation.
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