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On the recordJuly 4, 1909
They knew the responsibilities that they owed to the world and that they owed to the people for whom they were making the declaration.
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Robert Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address at the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Norwich, Connecticut

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The danger is not so much that the class of users in whose favor the classification purports to be made will receive more benefit than the framers of the law may have intended, but it is that many who do not belong to the class intended to be favored will import articles suitable for the prescribed use under the general terms of the statute, but will use them for other and general purposes.

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