It is my firm conviction...
It is my firm conviction that the duty of national defense, like the general duty of citizenship, should be broadly extended and borne by all our people. We do not believe in or wish to bear the expense of maintaining large standing military forces.
Calvin Coolidge
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Added on: April 24, 2007
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Commenting on the role of the United States military at the Naval Academy graduation in 1925.
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