Americans seem particularly fond of such verbal symmetries, and tend to elect anybody who can come up with a symmetrical sentence. The current President told his troops: “You stood up for America, now America must stand up for you.” The one before didn’t care “whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies.” Before that it was: “People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power,” and so on and so forth.
