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In selecting men to be our political leaders, we have sometimes committed the gravest moral error.
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Mann emphasizes the importance of moral integrity in political leadership.
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This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
But the impious hand of man divorces these twin capacities, wherever it denies knowledge.
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.
Has the fact never yet come to the knowledge of the magistrates of the District of Columbia, that the constitution of the United States declares that “excessive bail shall not be required”?
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