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Calvin Coolidge: Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to…

On the recordJanuary 16, 1925
Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C.

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