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Calvin Coolidge: Under free governments trade must be free, and to be of permanent value it ought to be independent.

On the recordMay 2, 1927
Under free governments trade must be free, and to be of permanent value it ought to be independent.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address Before the Third Pan American Commercial Conference at Washington, D.C.

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