New England Diary

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Vermonters 'live within their income' (or used to)

Union Christian Church (1840) in Plymouth, Vt., the town where  Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president, was born on July 4, 1872.

 

"Vermont is my birthright. People there are happy and content. They belong to themselves, live within their income, and fear no man.''

-- Calvin Coolidge