History fortunately has a way of filtering out some of the most outrageous things that elected officials state publicly. That is probably for the best, as we’re left with and tend to remember things like, “A house divided cannot stand.” And “Give me liberty or give me death.”, and “Ask not what your country can do . . . .” In the twenty-second century, we can only hope that some of the lunatic ideas from our current time will recede from collective memory, leaving us with the words of Patrick Henry, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and John F. Kennedy.
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