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Calvin Coolidge: An absolutism could never rest upon anything save a perverted and distorted view of human relationships and upon false…

On the recordJanuary 16, 1925
An absolutism could never rest upon anything save a perverted and distorted view of human relationships and upon false standards set up and maintained by force.
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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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