"It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.“


-John George Nicolay

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It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

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