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Calvin Coolidge: Only so long as this flame burns shall we endure and the light of liberty be shed over the nations of the earth.

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Only so long as this flame burns shall we endure and the light of liberty be shed over the nations of the earth.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge asserts that liberty must be actively maintained to endure globally.

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