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Calvin Coolidge: “In time the damage can be repaired, but there are irreparable losses which will go on forever.”

On the recordNovember 10, 1926
In time the damage can be repaired, but there are irreparable losses which will go on forever.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Dedication of the Liberty Memorial at Kansas City, Missouri

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