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To it more than to any other among the many causes which, in our American life, tell for religious toleration is due the impossibility of persecution of a particular creed.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt highlights the role of public schools in promoting religious toleration in America.

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