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Teddy Roosevelt: “He is but a poor American who, looking at this field, does not feel within himself a deeper reverence for the nation's…”

On the recordMay 29, 1904
He is but a poor American who, looking at this field, does not feel within himself a deeper reverence for the nation's past and a higher purpose to make the nation's future rise level to her past.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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