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“To be independent to my mind does not mean to be isolated, to be the priest or the Levite, but rather to be the good Samaritan. There is no real independence save only as we secure it through the law of service.
— Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States
1920s / Ordered Liberty and World Peace (1924)
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