The fundamental needs of humanity do not change.
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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So far back as we can peer into human history there has stood a priesthood that has led its people intellectually and morally.
Private charity must worthily support its clergymen and the faculty and instructors of our higher institutions of learning; and the Government must adequately reward the teachers in its schools.
The remedy lies in part with private charity, in part with government action; but it lies wholly with public opinion.
They have been faithful though neglected; but a state which neglects or refuses to support any class will soon find that such class neglects and refuses to support it.
They have provided the foundations of our liberties.
In our pursuit of prosperity we have forgotten and neglected its foundations.
Unless these conditions are changed, these professions will not attract to their services young men of the same comparative quality of ability and character that in the past they commanded.
Some of our teachers, out of a like discontent, will listen too willingly to revolutionary doctrines which have not originated in meeting-houses but are the importations of those who lack nothing but the power to destroy all that our…
Some of the clergy, seeing their own rewards are disproportionate, will draw the conclusion that all rewards are disproportionate, that the whole distribution of wealth is unsound; and turn to a belief in and an advocacy of some kind of a…
We have lost our reverence for the profession of teaching and bestowed it upon the profession of acquiring.
We compensate liberally the manufacturer and the merchant; but we fail to appreciate those who guard the minds of our youth or those who preside over our congregations.
The salaries of college professors are much less than like training and ability would command in the commercial world.
The compensation of many teachers and clergymen is far less than the pay of unskilled labor.
It is not well if the great diversity of modern learning has made the truth so little of a novelty that it lacks all reverence.
These principles there laid down with so much solemnity have now the same binding force as in those revolutionary days when they were recognized and proclaimed.
In that noble Declaration of Rights the principles of freedom and equality were first declared.
May there be in all her sons a conviction that with her abides Him who changes not.
As a teacher of the classics, as a maker of public opinion, as a source of wise laws, as the herald of a righteous victory,--Amherst College stands on a foundation which has remained unchanged through the ages.
They are founded upon public opinion, and public opinion in America up to the present time has drawn its inspiration from the classics.
There is greater need for a liberal culture that will develop the whole man in the whole body of our citizenship.
Our industrial system will break down unless it is humanized.
A more liberal culture will reveal the importance and nobility of the work of the world, whether in war or peace.
The discontent in modern industry is the result of a too narrow outlook.
We must have every American citizen well grounded in the classical ideals.
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