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Calvin Coolidge: The orations of Demosthenes and Cicero are pitched in the same high strain.

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The orations of Demosthenes and Cicero are pitched in the same high strain.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge draws a parallel between the oratory of ancient figures and the ideals they espoused.

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