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.
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
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presidency.ucsb.eduEditor's note · Context
Remarks at a Luncheon of the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission in Yorktown, Virginia.
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