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Calvin Coolidge: “These do not come from the Government, but from the people themselves.”

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These do not come from the Government, but from the people themselves.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge asserts that virtues come from the people, not the government.

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