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Calvin Coolidge: “They were the men who had fought a war to limit the power of government and enlarge the privileges of the individual.”

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They were the men who had fought a war to limit the power of government and enlarge the privileges of the individual.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge reflects on the determination of early Americans to limit government power and expand individual privileges.

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