Day 42 of 50 Docs in 50 Days: Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence In this address, President Coolidge reminded Americans how revolutionary the Declaration of Independence had been by holding forth the idea, for the first time in history, that liberty was not the privilege of kings and nobles but an equal natural right. Rejecting that idea then or at any time, he said, could only lead America and the world back to the days when the people enjoyed neither liberty nor government by consent.
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