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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

Editor's note · Context

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

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