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Keeping The Republic

Through education, religion, and culture we must inspire the American people and ourselves to rise above the all-consuming passion for ourselves. To infuse our democratic society with republican virtue, and live up, even if just a little, to the challenge Benjamin Franklin gave us so many Septembers ago.

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