Vice Presidential Candidate

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    The Republican Vice Presidential Candidate ... asks you to place him a heartbeat from the Presidency.
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    Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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    Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
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