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Teddy Roosevelt: “On the whole the New Englanders have exerted a more profound and wholesome influence upon the development of our common…”

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On the whole the New Englanders have exerted a more profound and wholesome influence upon the development of our common country than has ever been exerted by any other equally numerous body of our people.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt acknowledges the significant positive impact of New Englanders on the development of the United States.

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