“If you love our country, and love our children as much as you do, stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom, and to be faithful to the constitution.”

—  Ted Cruz

2010s, Speech at the Republican National Convention (July 20, 2016)

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