That reply is, that on a great moral and political, as well as legal question,--a question that connects itself with ethics, as well as with partisan politics, and the success of old parties or the formation of new ones,--integrity is as necessary to the formation of a sound opinion as intelligence.
Mann emphasizes the necessity of integrity alongside intelligence in forming sound opinions on moral and political issues.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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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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