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Teddy Roosevelt: “Honor, thrice honor to those who for three generations, during the period of this people's great expansion, have seen…”

On the recordMay 19, 1902
Honor, thrice honor to those who for three generations, during the period of this people's great expansion, have seen that the force of the living truth expanded as the nation expanded!
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Centennial Meeting of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church at Carnegie Hall in New York City

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