Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

A man coming here from the outside can, perhaps, see more clearly than those who are all the time enjoying the surroundings and can realize how great a privilege it is which the generosity of Col. Higginson has allowed to us of Harvard to enjoy.

Context

Remarks at Harvard Union in Boston, Massachusetts

06/27/1905

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