Bunker Hill meant that the Colonies would save themselves and saving themselves save the mother country for liberty.
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 purpose of the patriots was resistance to tyranny.
It is the moral quality of the day that abides.
But these were the deeds of men and the deeds of men always have an inward significance.
They who reverence Bunker Hill will fight there.
The heroes and holidays of a people which fascinate their soul reveal what they hold are the realities of life and mark out a line beyond which they will not retreat, but at which they will stand to overcome or die.
Reverence is the measure not of others but of ourselves.
The outcome is in your hand, my fellow American; if you deserve to win, the Nation cannot lose.
However powerful the forces of evil may appear, somewhere there are more powerful forces of righteousness.
The nation with the greatest moral power will win.
Is the heart of the Nation still sound, does it still respond to the appeal to the high ideals of the past?
And at the conclusion of the Spanish War it is to the ever-enduring credit of our country that it exacted not penalties, but justice, and actually compensated a defeated foe for public property that had come to our hands in the Philippines…
It was manifested again in the adoption and defence by the young nation of that principle which is known as the Monroe Doctrine that European despotism should make no further progress in the Western Hemisphere.
Without the support of the moral power of the Nation armies will prove useless, without a moral victory, whatever the fortunes of the battlefield, there can be no abiding peace.
The ultimate result of all wars and of this war has been and will be determined by the moral power of the nations engaged.
They have taught and practised the precept that the greater man's power the greater his obligation.
They have believed in democracy because they believed in the nobility of man; they have served society because they have looked upon the possession of learning not as conferring a privilege but as laying on a duty.
This has ever been the distinguishing characteristic of the American institution of learning.
They are demonstrating again that they are the strongholds of ordered liberty and individual freedom.
It is this same ancient spirit which, coming to the defence of the Nation, has in this new day of peril made nearly every college campus a training field for military service, and again sent graduate and undergraduate into the fighting…
They minister not alone to their own students, they minister to all humanity.
Without them civilization as we know it would fall from mankind in a night.
Sovereignty, it is our belief, is vested in the individual; and we are going to protect the rights of the individual.
The time has come when the world is looking to America, as the Nation has looked to Massachusetts in the past, to stand up and defend the rights of the individual.
The time has come now when we are going to defend those rights.
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