Thus is there a responsibility placed upon each one of us who will clearly realize that here, too, is a duty to posterity, whom we would fain guide to the truth as we see it, and to whose hands we commit our share in the history of our beloved country--that history so much of which was made under his leadership.
Lodge expresses the responsibility of the living to guide future generations in understanding history shaped by leaders like Roosevelt.
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George Washington will always hold the love and reverence of men because they see embodied in him the noblest possibilities of humanity.
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