It is axiomatic that a free press can exist only in a free country.
Calvin Coolidge: “It is axiomatic that a free press can exist only in a free country.”
On the recordApril 24, 1927
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presidency.ucsb.eduEditor's note · Context
Address at the Dinner of the United Press in New York City on Difficulties with Mexico, Nicaragua and China
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