"I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of compet...

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~












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