To give them aid and comfort is to support their evil doing and to become what is known in law as an accessory after the fact.
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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There is an obligation to forgive but it does not extend to the unrepentant.
Those who attempt to lead people on in this expectation only add to their burdens and their dangers.
Our salvation lies in putting forth greater effort, in manfully assuming our own burdens, rather than in entertaining the pleasing delusion that they can be shifted to some other shoulders.
Profitable employment is the death blow to Bolshevism and abundant production is disaster to the profiteer.
No progress will be made by shouting Bolsheviki and profiteers.
There is but one remedy for this, increased production.
But unreasonable criticism and agitation for unreasonable remedies will avail nothing.
Not all those who are attempting to conduct a successful business are profiteers.
Not all those who are working to better the condition of the people are Bolsheviki or enemies of society.
Wholesale criticism of everybody and everything does not necessarily exhibit statesmanlike qualities, and may not be true.
There is a natural desire in every human mind to seek better conditions.
In meeting this issue, not hysterically, not with demagogy, but calmly, with candor, applying an adequate remedy to ascertained facts, Massachusetts, as usual, will lead all the other States of the Nation.
The ancient faith of Massachusetts in the worth of her citizens, the cause of great solicitude for the welfare of each individual, will remain undiminished.
The worth of the individual man shines forth with an increased glory.
The world appeal to duty triumphed over the world appeal to selfishness.
The power of organized despotisms had been proven to be inferior to the power of organized republics.
Around us is a renewed determination deep and solemn that this Commonwealth of ours shall endure.
Over us shines a glorious past, before us lies a promising future.
We come to take counsel both from experience and from imagination.
We come in the light of history and of reason.
We come to renew our pledge publicly at the altar of our country.
The classic halls are the armories from which are furnished forth the knights in armor to defend and support our liberty.
The defenses of our Commonwealth are not material but mental and spiritual.
But the evidence was never so overwhelming as now that men and nations must live rationally or perish.
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