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Calvin Coolidge: “The men of Massachusetts are not labor men, or policemen, or union men, or poor men, or rich men, or any other class of…”

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The men of Massachusetts are not labor men, or policemen, or union men, or poor men, or rich men, or any other class of men first; they are Americans first.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge highlights the identity of Americans as a unifying factor over class distinctions.

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