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You may find individuals who will be virtuous amid want and privation,--heroes in virtue;--but a virtuous community in rags and hunger, you will never find.
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Mann argues that while individuals can be virtuous in hardship, a community cannot thrive in poverty.
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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.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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