We believe that there is no other nation on earth that gives to the individual the privileges and the rights that he has in America.
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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Then he said, and said very generously, that he thought well of New England men and had it not been for their support, had it not been for the men, the materials and munitions that they supplied to the Revolutionary forces, the war would…
So that I know nothing to which we New Englanders owe more, and especially the people of Massachusetts, of our civil liberties than we do to our form of town government.
Massachusetts has decided that the path of the Mayflower shall not be closed.
It would mean repudiating the devotion of our brave men in arms, repudiating the sacrifice of the fathers, mothers, wives, and dear ones behind, and repudiating the loyalty of the millions who subscribed to the Liberty Loan,--it would mean…
Massachusetts is not going to repudiate these patriotic services.
Remember this: we are not responsible for the war, we are responsible for the preparation that enables us to defend our soldiers and ourselves from savages.
We have won the right to reelection by duty well performed.
Our brave soldiers, their dependents, the great patriotic public have been protected by the present Government with every means that ingenuity could devise.
More than that, Massachusetts did not have to be asked; while Washington was yet dumb Massachusetts spoke.
It is a matter of organizing the entire fabric of society.
Wars are waged now with far more than merely the troops in the field.
The only question for consideration is whether the Government of this Commonwealth, legislative and executive, has rendered and will render prompt and efficient support for the national defence.
On Tuesday next the voters of Massachusetts will decide whether they will support the Government in its defence of America, and its defence of all that America means.
It is too important to think of candidates, too important to think of party, too important to think of anything but our country at war.
We must think now only in terms of winning the war.
But when the house is on fire reasonable men do not stop to argue of culinary cuts nor listen to a disquisition on plumbing; they call out the fire department and join it in an attempt to save their dwelling.
There will come out of government exactly what is put into it.
We must stand not in the expectation of a reward but with a desire to serve.
We must always have an alert and interested citizenship.
Our institutions are predicated on the rights and the corresponding duties, on the worth, of the individual.
Some desire to destroy the authority of government altogether.
Some desire to use the processes of government for their own ends.
He refuses to make the world wealthy, but He offers to help them make themselves wealthy with true riches which shall be a hundred-fold more, even in this life, than that which was offered them by any former system.
But on the third basis He comes to earth in the form of a servant who is at the same time a master commanding his disciples to take up their cross and follow Him; it is sovereignty through service as opposed to slavery through service.
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