American General

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    Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves—and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
    Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)