Herbert Hoover actually said...

No one steps upon the soil of Virginia without inspiration from the part she has played in the winning of our liberties and the building of our institutions.

Context

Remarks at a Luncheon of the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission in Yorktown, Virginia.

10/18/1931

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