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Calvin Coolidge: “If there was to be popular sovereignty, if there was to be popular government, there must be popular education.”

On the recordMay 18, 1928
If there was to be popular sovereignty, if there was to be popular government, there must be popular education.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address at the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

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