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Calvin Coolidge: No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence.

On the recordJuly 4, 1926
No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence.
Said by
Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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