A Republic, If You Can Keep It

Throughout American history, ideas about government and society have clashed and collided in an every changing political landscape. We write about the men and women, and the movements they inspired, who shaped political discourse in Benjamin Franklin's Republic.

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An historic education Though the heavens may fall Oh, brother soldiers Have you your pistols Now we lie in flanders fields Greatest generation The forgotten war If you love your uncle sam Volunteer generation A republic if you can keep it

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  • Jan 17, 2012 4:02 pm
    “Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom Now, as ever, we do ourselves best justice when we measure ourselves against ancient texts, as in Sophocles [from Antigone]: ‘All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and he repairs the evil.’ The only sin, he said, is pride.” - Bobby Kennedy

    “Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom Now, as ever, we do ourselves best justice when we measure ourselves against ancient texts, as in Sophocles [from Antigone]: ‘All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and he repairs the evil.’ The only sin, he said, is pride.” - Bobby Kennedy

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