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Calvin Coolidge: “It tends to embitter and divide the community into warring classes and thus weakens the unity and power of our national…”

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It tends to embitter and divide the community into warring classes and thus weakens the unity and power of our national life.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge discusses the divisive nature of strikes and their impact on national unity.

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