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Republicans have taken the stand that economic opportunity is central to the American ideal and that it is the government's responsibility to make it possible for everyone to rise.

— Heather Cox Richardson To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party (2014)

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The Republicans had fielded an army and navy of more than 2.5 million men, had invented national banking, currency, and taxation, had provided schools and homes for poor Americans, and had freed the country's four million slaves.

To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party (2014)

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