William Taft actually said...

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.

Context

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

07/04/1909

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