Calvin Coolidge actually said...

We expect to provide ourselves with reasonable protection, but we do not desire to enter into competition with any other country in the maintenance of land or sea forces.

Context

Address at the Dedication of the Liberty Memorial at Kansas City, Missouri

11/10/1926

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