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and governmental leadership in the sisterhood of states.
“The experience of the 1860’s had a lasting influence on the character and determination of our people, as reflected in this assemblage today.
The kind of Democrats who are responsible for the conditions we now enjoy in Virginia are oldfashioned Democrats, so old-fashioned that they believe in economy and honesty in government; so old fashioned that "they “believe in paying their debts; so old-fashioned that they have clung to the teachings of Democrats who believed in the fundamental principles of liberty—such , as Thomas Jefferson, who believed ‘that government is best which governs least’; Andrew Jackson, who paid off the public debt during his administration; Grover Cleveland, who Affirmed it ‘the duty of the people to support the government, not the government the people’; that great Virginian, Woodrow Wilson, whose sound domestic policies were overshadowed by his unsuccessful effort to lead the world into peace; another wise and farsighted Virginian, the late United tates Senator Carter Glass; and still another great Virginian, our senior United States Senator, Harry Flood Byrd.
“SENATOR BYRD, straining against the flood of federal profligacy through the years, many times has stood alone to save the bulwarks of our national solvency by individual determination and patriotic dedication to principles of sound government.
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