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Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

Calvin Coolidge

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Calvin Coolidge
Age: 60 †
Born: 1872
Born: July 4
Died: 1933
Died: January 5
30Th U.S. President
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