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Calvin Coolidge: “No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government.”

On the recordMay 14, 1926
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.

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