Political Quotes

On the recordApril 30, 1926
The Boy Scout movement has been instituted in order that the youth, instead of falling under the domination of habits and actions that lead only to destruction, may come under the discipline of a training that leads to eternal life.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address Before the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Washington, D.C.

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