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Calvin Coolidge: The assertion of human rights is naught but a call to human sacrifice.

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The assertion of human rights is naught but a call to human sacrifice.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge critiques the notion of human rights as often leading to sacrifice.

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