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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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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “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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Mann believes it is better to not vote at all than to participate in a system that is fundamentally flawed and deceptive.
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I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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