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Calvin Coolidge: “They have not empowered their Government to take a dollar of it except for a necessary public purpose.”

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They have not empowered their Government to take a dollar of it except for a necessary public purpose.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge asserts that the government should only use public funds for essential purposes, emphasizing the limits of governmental power.

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