Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

May we prove ourselves true to them, not merely by paying homage to their memory, but by so shaping the policy of this great Republic as to make it evident that we are not unworthy of our sires.

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Remarks at the Banquet of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

05/01/1902

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