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Calvin Coolidge: There are only two other choices, anarchy or despotism--Russia, present and past.

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There are only two other choices, anarchy or despotism--Russia, present and past.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge presents the stark choices of anarchy or despotism as alternatives to American democracy.

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