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Calvin Coolidge: We have no right to expect as our portion something substantially different from human experience in the past.

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We have no right to expect as our portion something substantially different from human experience in the past.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge reflects on the inevitability of human experience shaping expectations for the future.

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