• Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

  Horace Mann
  American educator 1796-1859
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1. property
2. efforts
3. liberty
4. written
5. putting
6. orchard

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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms. by : Horace Mann

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