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Calvin Coolidge: Although we are well aware that in the immediate past, and perhaps even now there are certain localities where our…

On the recordMay 29, 1927
Although we are well aware that in the immediate past, and perhaps even now there are certain localities where our citizens would be given over to pillage and murder but for the presence of our military forces, nevertheless it is the settled policy of our Government to deal with other nations not on the basis of force and compulsion, but on the basis of understanding and good will.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia

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