Political Quotes

On the recordDecember 11, 1928
No achievement of man in the progress of civilization has had a more rapid expansion.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address to the International Civil Aeronautics Conference in Washington, D.C.

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