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“Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!”
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- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6e6f5653e5330fbeb14f3b6b60991001f1ff5cb53887b6368facf40af5ab02ef
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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