I think we're at a time in American history that's probably analogous to, maybe, Rome before the first emperors, when the Republic started to fall... (Wesley Clark)

I think we're at a time in American history that's probably analogous to, maybe, Rome before the first emperors, when the Republic started to fall...

Wesley Clark

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