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Calvin Coolidge: “What price could the millions, who have found the inestimable blessings of American citizenship around our great…”

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What price could the millions, who have found the inestimable blessings of American citizenship around our great industrial centres, after coming here from lands of oppression, afford to pay to those who organized those industries?
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge questions the value of American citizenship for those who fled oppression to find opportunity.

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