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Let this Light of the Age be set upon a hill, that all nations may behold it.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Let this Light of the Age be set upon a hill, that all nations may behold it.”
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Mann calls for a shining example of freedom and justice to be visible to all nations, symbolizing hope and progress.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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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