Teddy Roosevelt: “We should be both reverently thankful for what we have received, and…”

On the recordOctober 21, 1906

We should be both reverently thankful for what we have received, and earnestly bent upon turning it into a means of grace and not of destruction.

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Republican · New York

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Proclamation 665—Thanksgiving Day, 1906

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