Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

On this plan was the United States built; on the plan of this Ordinance we have, State by State, filled in the geographic frame of our domain; and from it we have had no occasion to depart.

Context

Letter on Celebrating the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Ordinance of 1787

04/19/1935

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