It ought to extend its relief through its national and local agencies, as may be appropriate in each case, to the suffering and the needy.
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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It Ought to encourage provisions for economic justice for the defenseless.
The Government ought always to be alert on the side of the humanities.
If they are to be trained in these arts, it is our duty to provide for them the best that there is.
All the victories won by organized labor in the past generation have been won through the support of public opinion.
Labor can make no permanent gains at the cost of the general welfare.
It tends to embitter and divide the community into warring classes and thus weakens the unity and power of our national life.
If the industry involved is a basic one, it reduces the necessary economic surplus and, increasing the cost of living, it injures the economic welfare and general comfort of the whole people.
A strike in modern industry has many of the aspects of war in the modern world.
Those who ask the protections of civilization should be ready to use the methods of civilization.
It is imperative that flood control be undertaken for California and Arizona. preparation made for irrigation, for power, and for domestic water.
This pledged faith of the Government ought to be redeemed.
We need their active and energetic cooperation, the vigilant action of their police, and the jurisdiction of their courts to assist in enforcement.
They should be able to appoint temporary boards with authority to call for witnesses and documents, conciliate differences, encourage arbitration, and in case of threatened scarcity exercise control over distribution.
Authority should be lodged with the President and the Departments of Commerce and Labor, giving them power to deal with an emergency.
I do not advocate the elimination of regional considerations, but it has become apparent that without centralized executive action the management of this great business, like the management of any other great business, will flounder in…
The maintenance of a merchant marine is of the utmost importance for national defense and the service of our commerce.
With the greatly increased cost of construction and operation, it has become necessary to plan in advance, by community organization and selective agriculture, methods sufficient to repay these increasing outlays.
This property ought, to be transferred to private management under conditions which will dedicate it to the public purpose for which it was conceived.
We have expended vast fortunes, we have taxed everybody, but we are unable to secure results, which benefit anybody.
If anything were needed to demonstrate the almost utter incapacity of the National Government to deal directly with an industrial and commercial problem, it has been provided by our experience with this property.
There is every reason to suppose that a new era in agricultural prosperity lies just before us, which will probably be unprecedented.
They are mutually dependent and can each advance their own prosperity most by advancing the prosperity of the other.
A more intimate relation should be established between agriculture and the other business activities of the Nation.
Nor does preparation mean a policy of militarizing.
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