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Calvin Coolidge: “Our Government has usually been too remiss, rather than too active, in supporting the lawful rights of its citizens…”

On the recordApril 24, 1927
Our Government has usually been too remiss, rather than too active, in supporting the lawful rights of its citizens abroad.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Dinner of the United Press in New York City on Difficulties with Mexico, Nicaragua and China

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