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If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.

John Ashcroft

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John Ashcroft
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: May 9
Former Governor Of Missouri
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Chicago
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John David Ashcroft
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