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Calvin Coolidge: Has not our Nation been raised up and strengthened, trained and prepared, to meet the great sacrifice that must be made…

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Has not our Nation been raised up and strengthened, trained and prepared, to meet the great sacrifice that must be made now to save the world from despotism?
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge questions whether America has been prepared for the sacrifices necessary to combat despotism.

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