It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mista…

Calvin Coolidge
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It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant. ✨ Calvin Coolidge (1924). Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings
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