Give a savage tribe firearms and a distillery, and their members will exterminate each other.
Calvin Coolidge: “Give a savage tribe firearms and a distillery, and their members will exterminate each other.”
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This statement illustrates Coolidge's view on the destructive potential of providing dangerous tools to unprepared societies.
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