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| CATHEDRAL SPIRES A group of granite pillars located in the Needles that have been designated a National Natural Landmark. |
While in Custer State Park, we traveled the scenic Needles Highway which winds through pine forest and around granite spires called "the Needles." The route snakes through several small, one-way granite tunnels that we just barely fit through.
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| I don't know how this bus made it through the tunnels. |
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| As you come out of this tunnel you can see Mount Rushmore off in the distance. |
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| On our last day we rode to Mount Rushmore and walked the President's Trail. |
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| There was work going on right on top of President Roosevelt's head. |
George Washington
"I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them."
Thomas Jefferson
“We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”
Theodore Roosevelt
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. "
Abraham Lincoln
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. "
