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Calvin Coolidge: “So that I know nothing to which we New Englanders owe more, and especially the people of Massachusetts, of our civil…”

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So that I know nothing to which we New Englanders owe more, and especially the people of Massachusetts, of our civil liberties than we do to our form of town government.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge credits New England's town government as essential to the preservation of civil liberties.

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