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The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction.

— Calvin Coolidge The Press Under a Free Government (1925)

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There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Address at Holy Cross (1919)

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