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While we are and shall continue to be armed it is not as a menace, but rather a common assurance of tranquility to all the peaceloving people of the world.
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gutenberg.orgCalvin Coolidge: “While we are and shall continue to be armed it is not as a menace, but rather a common assurance of tranquility to all…”
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Coolidge reassures that military preparedness is meant to ensure peace rather than threaten it.
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