Barack Obama: “Step by step, they have traded bullets for ballots, destruction and division for dialogue and institutions.”

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.

The success of this experiment was never a given.