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The Most Iconic Independence Day Speech
Talking Big Ideas. “I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence, the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age.” ~ Frederick Douglass