“America is great because she is good,” according to a quote generally attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville. “If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Hillary Clinton alluded to these words in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. “And in the end, it comes down to what Donald Trump doesn’t get: that America is great – because America is good”
Before Hillary, Bill Clinton quoted them almost verbatim in 1994, and before him Dwight Eisenhower used the line in a 1952 speech. Continue reading
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