Barack Obama actually said...

We are here today not simply to pay tribute to those patriots who founded our nation in Philadelphia or defended it in Baltimore, but to take up the cause for which they gave so much.

Context

Address During the Inaugural Whistle Stop Tour in Baltimore

01/16/2009

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