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Calvin Coolidge: Next to our attachment to the principle of self-government has been our attachment to the policy of peace.

On the recordJanuary 15, 1928
Next to our attachment to the principle of self-government has been our attachment to the policy of peace.
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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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