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A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

Horace Mann

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Horace Mann
Age: 63 †
Born: 1796
Born: May 4
Died: 1859
Died: August 2
American Politician
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
Franklin
Massachusetts
Small
Superintendents
House
Keepers
Form
Scale
Government
Scales
Without
Vast
Must
Mad
Would
Intelligence
People
Republican
Superintendent

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