Let there be a purpose in all your legislation to recognize the right of man to be well born, well nurtured, well educated, well employed, and well paid.
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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Can we still act on the principle that there is no sacrifice too great to maintain the right?
Whether we are to enter a new era in Massachusetts depends upon you.
It is your duty not only to reflect public opinion, but to lead it.
How shall we emerge from the autocratic methods of war to the democratic methods of peace, raising ourselves again to the source of all our strength and all our glory--sound self-government?
Each individual must have the rewards and opportunities worthy of the character of our citizenship, a broader recognition of his worth and a larger liberty, protected by order--and always under the law.
You are to have the opportunity and responsibility of reflecting this new spirit in the laws of the most enlightened of Commonwealths.
It is a time to keep our faith in our State, our Nation, our institutions, and in each other.
To save America means to save American institutions, it means to save the manhood and womanhood of our country.
We want to care for the soldiers and their dependents.
We have had in view but one object--the saving of America.
I am responsible for what I have said and what I have done.
It has shown the victory of justice and of freedom and established the divine rights of the people.
It is not a gospel of ease but of work, not of dependence but of independence, not of an easy tolerance of wrong but a stern insistence on right, not the privilege of receiving but the duty of giving.
We have come to the realization of a new brotherhood among nations and among men.
Government will take on new activities, but it is not more to control the people, the people are more to control the Government.
Education is to teach men not what to think but how to think.
America has been performing a great service for humanity.
On the States will largely fall the task of putting into effect the lessons of the war that are to make America more truly American.
There is no greater service that we can render the oppressed of the earth than to maintain inviolate the freedom of our own citizens.
Believing in our Nation thoroughly and unreservedly, confident that the evidence of the past and present justifies that belief, it is our one desire to make America more American.
Such a league, if formed, is not for the purpose, must not be for the purpose, of diminishing the spirit or influence of our Nation, but to make that spirit and influence more real and more effective.
Each nationality is contending for the right to have its own government, and in that is meeting with the sanction of the free peoples of the earth.
The most outstanding feature of the war has been the assertion of the national spirit.
The Revolution made us a nation; the Spanish War made us a world power, the present war has given us recognition as a world power.
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