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Calvin Coolidge: It is better for the people to make their own mistakes than to have some one else make their mistakes for them.

On the recordJanuary 15, 1928
It is better for the people to make their own mistakes than to have some one else make their mistakes for them.
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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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