It breaches the fundamental principles of our Government to compensate service, not rank.
Calvin Coolidge: “It breaches the fundamental principles of our Government to compensate service, not rank.”
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Message to the Senate Returning Without Approval a Bill for Retirement of Emergency Officers of the World War
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