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Calvin Coolidge: Our most sacred trust has been, and is, the establishment and expansion of the spirit of democracy.

On the recordJanuary 15, 1928
Our most sacred trust has been, and is, the establishment and expansion of the spirit of democracy.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address Before the Pan American Conference at Havana, Cuba

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