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Calvin Coolidge: “These principles, which I have but lightly sketched, are the foundation of American institutions, the source of American…”

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These principles, which I have but lightly sketched, are the foundation of American institutions, the source of American freedom and the faith of any party entitled to call itself American.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge outlines the principles that form the foundation of American institutions and freedom.

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