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Herbert Hoover: “No one steps upon the soil of Virginia without inspiration from the part she has played in the winning of our liberties…”

On the recordOctober 18, 1931
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.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

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

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