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On the recordOctober 23, 1905
There is no other people of which history tells which, having passed through such a war as we have passed through, now, after forty years, finds not only that the flag which had been rent asunder is once again whole, without a seam, but finds all her people challenging as theirs the right to claim their part in the heritage of glory bequeathed to every American alike by the American who wore the blue and the American who wore the gray in the great Civil War.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama

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