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On the recordOctober 11, 1909
We are in the habit, we Anglo-Saxons, of looking back to our ancestors with a smug satisfaction and thinking that no one has exactly the right to that pride of ancestry that we have.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Address at Glenwood Mission Inn in Riverside, California

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