Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It is indeed appropriate that the Methodists of America—the men belonging to that religious organization which furnished the pioneers in carving out of the West what is now the heart of the great American Republic—should found this great university.

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Remarks at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the McKinley Memorial Ohio College of Government of the American University

05/13/1902

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