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Calvin Coolidge: The most beneficent of our institutions had their beginnings in forms which would be particularly odious to us now.

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The most beneficent of our institutions had their beginnings in forms which would be particularly odious to us now.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge notes that many beneficial institutions had humble and even objectionable beginnings.

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