Political Quotes

On the recordJuly 3, 1902
We showed in the Revolution that we had a right to be free; we showed when we constructed the more perfect union of the old Confederacy that we knew how to use that right as it needed to be used.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Banquet Given By Attorney General Philander Knox in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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