Our Government offers no objection to the carrying on of commerce by our citizens with the people of Russia.
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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The other is the peaceful settlement of controversies between nations.
The one is the avoidance of permanent political alliances which would sacrifice our proper independence.
We shall do well to recognize this basic fact in all national affairs and govern ourselves accordingly.
But the United States sees no reason to limit its own freedom and independence of action by joining it.
Our country has definitely refused to adopt and ratify the covenant of the League of Nations.
We attend to our own affairs, conserve our own strength, and protect the interests of our own citizens; but we recognize thoroughly our obligation to help others, reserving to the decision of our own Judgment the time, the place, and the…
We desire to perpetuate it always by granting full justice to others and requiring of others full justice to ourselves.
It is our duty, under the inspiration of his example, to take up the burdens which he was permitted to lay down, and to develop and support the wise principles of government which he represented.
Make the discharge of the great trust you now hold an example of hope for righteousness everywhere, a new guaranty that the Government of America shall endure.
To you who have added the glory of the hills and plains of France to the glory of Concord and Bunker Hill, to you who have led when others faltered, to you again is given the leadership.
My fellow citizens of Massachusetts, to you I commend this cause.
This is the cause of all the people, especially of the weak and defenseless.
Those who are attempting to wrench the scepter of authority from the representatives of the people, to subvert the jurisdiction of her laws, are the enemies not only of progress, but of all present achievement, not only of what we hope…
All these are the result of ordered liberty--the result of living under the law.
It is there, it stands, it cannot be argued away.
All this is a record not of promises, but of achievement.
I shall continue to administer the law of all the people.
That any one should attempt to substitute the will of any outside organization for the authority conferred by law upon the representatives of the people had never occurred to me.
That any one should dare to put in jeopardy the stability of our Government for the purpose of securing office was to me inconceivable.
Let every inhabitant make known his determination to support law and order.
The voice of the people speaks by the voice of the individual.
Let the worth of the office-holder speak the worth of the government.
People see the office-holder rather than the Government.
Unless good citizens hold office bad citizens will.
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