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Is this an example you desire to set before the ingenuous and aspiring youth of the land; ay, before your own children?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Is this an example you desire to set before the ingenuous and aspiring youth of the land; ay, before your own children?”
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Mann challenges the morality of setting poor examples for the youth and one's own children.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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