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Calvin Coolidge: Unless American institutions can provide for that welfare the cause of humanity is hopeless.

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Unless American institutions can provide for that welfare the cause of humanity is hopeless.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge warns that without effective American institutions, the cause of humanity is doomed.

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