Sadly few people were there to hear Liz Cheney’s speech. Her well written and spoken speech should be a model for others who cherish this democratic republic.
As the story was told and retold on the House floor, Ben Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
To which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
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