Political Quotes

On the recordJuly 4, 1909
We speak with great satisfaction of the fact that our ancestors—and I claim New England ancestry—came to this country in order to establish freedom of religion.
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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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