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Calvin Coolidge: “When there is a failure it is not because the system has failed, but because we have failed.”

On the recordFebruary 21, 1924
When there is a failure it is not because the system has failed, but because we have failed.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Radio Address to the Nation on the Occasion of Washington's Birthday

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