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Calvin Coolidge: Each nationality is contending for the right to have its own government, and in that is meeting with the sanction of the…

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Each nationality is contending for the right to have its own government, and in that is meeting with the sanction of the free peoples of the earth.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge discusses the universal desire for self-governance among nations, supported by free peoples worldwide.

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