The Republican Party is trying to use all of its brains, all of the ability it has, all of its understanding of this world as it now exists, merely to establish the foundations from which you--you people down there, soon to take over--will carry this United States forward to greater blessings of liberty and freedom, under God, than it has ever known before.
Remarks at the Pennsylvania Republican Rally on the Occasion of the President's Birthday.
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