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Their bonds have been ten thousand times more powerful than their bayonets in consummating this disastrous compromise.
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Mann argues that financial influence has been more effective than military force in shaping political outcomes.
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He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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