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Calvin Coolidge: We ought not to shrink from sacrifice to make that inspired vision a practical reality.

On the recordDecember 28, 1926
We ought not to shrink from sacrifice to make that inspired vision a practical reality.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address at the 150th Anniversary of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton, Trenton, N.J.

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