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Calvin Coolidge: The time has come now when we are going to defend those rights.

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The time has come now when we are going to defend those rights.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge declares the necessity of defending individual rights at a pivotal moment in history.

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