Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Speech http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/
“The Republican party makes even its young men seem old; the Democratic Party makes even its old men seem young.”
Comparing Richard Nixon to Alben Barkley during the 1952 presidential race, as quoted in Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait (1959) by Earl Mazo, Chapter 7
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