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Calvin Coolidge: “It has been observed that propaganda seeks to close the mind, while education seeks to open it.”

On the recordJanuary 16, 1925
It has been observed that propaganda seeks to close the mind, while education seeks to open it.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C.

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