Something Went Wrong Somewhere

A brief history of Republican eloquence.

Abraham Lincoln: Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men our created equal.

Teddy Roosevelt: When all is said and done, the rule of brotherhood remains as the indispensible prerequisite to success in the kind of national life for which we strive. . . .
. . . Our aim is to recognize what Lincoln pointed out: The fact that there are some respects in which men are obviously not equal; but also to insist that there should be . . . an equality before the law, and at least an approximate equality in the conditions under which each man obtains the chance to show the stuff that is in him when compared to his fellows.

Warren Harding: We drew to a pair of deuces, and filled.

Ronald Reagan: Facts are stupid things.

George W. Bush: You're working hard to put food on your family . . .