When the trial of causes goes outside the court-room, Anglo-Saxon constitutional government ends.
Calvin Coolidge
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Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A member of the Republican Party, he was known for his quiet demeanor and strong support for business and limited government. Coolidge's presidency is often associated with the economic prosperity of the Roaring Twenties, and he famously advocated for a hands-off approach to the economy, believing that government should interfere as little as possible in the lives of citizens and businesses.
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Let their glory suffer no diminution at our hands.
The courts of Massachusetts are known and honored wherever men love justice.
No judge should be required to seek or receive political rewards.
No litigant should be required to submit his case to the hazard and expense of a political campaign.
Courts are established, not to determine the popularity of a cause, but to adjudicate and enforce rights.
No nation has discarded it and retained liberty.
Its strength is that even such administration secures to the people more blessings than any other system ever produced.
Its weakness is the weakness of us imperfect human beings who administer it.
The latest, most modern, and nearest perfect system that statesmanship has devised is representative government.
That state is most fortunate in its form of government which has the aptest instruments for the discovery of laws.
They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.
Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority.
The suspension of one man's dividends is the suspension of another man's pay envelope.
The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together.
Let war and all force end, and peace and all law reign.
After more than five years of the bitterest war in human experience, the last great stronghold of force, surrendering to the demands of America and her allies, agreed to cast aside the sword and live under the law.
When they set foot on Plymouth Rock they brought the Mayflower Compact, in which, calling on the Creator to witness, they agreed with each other to make just laws and render due submission and obedience.
Turning to her veterans she can say "These are our defenders.
Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without she can view them calmly.
While such devotion lives the Commonwealth is secure.
The last one she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war.
We need a broader, firmer, deeper faith in the people,--a faith that men desire to do right, that the Commonwealth is founded upon a righteousness which will endure.
There are certain fundamental principles of sound community life which cannot be stated too emphatically or too often.
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