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Calvin Coolidge: “We have robbed no people of their independence, we have laid on no country the hand of oppression.”

On the recordMay 29, 1927
We have robbed no people of their independence, we have laid on no country the hand of oppression.
Said by
Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia

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