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All history illustrates the principle, that when property is insecure, it will not be earned.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “All history illustrates the principle, that when property is insecure, it will not be earned.”
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Mann states that insecure property rights hinder economic productivity.
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The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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