Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages - Softcover

Coolidge, Calvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535311282 ISBN 13: 9781535311281

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

The Boston police strike in 1919 had given then Governor Coolidge a national reputation as an executive of strength and decision, and a firm upholder of the forces of law and order. His addresses reveal him a penetrating thinker and an eloquent defender of American ideals and institutions.

"Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation." -Calvin Coolidge

"Striking either as a creed or as a political platform." -Outlook

"The real though informal and unofficial platform of principles which the people of Massachusetts have by this election made their own. It is not a political program; but we do not know any recent volume which in so brief a compass has stated as clearly and with such freedom from party bias and class interest the fundamental principles of justice and humanity which the present generation needs to understand and apply to the settlement of current political and industrial problems. The American spirit which animates them and the felicity of phrase in which they are expressed recall at times the analogous utterances of Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln." -New Outlook

"Decidedly worth reading because of the personality so evident in the words. This is Puritan New England undiluted. The old faith in labor and democracy, the old satisfaction in the truth of a truism, the old curt simplicity of speech and forthrightness of thought are here." -The Independent

"A man as sincere in his beliefs as the day is long, and one who has no slight knowledge of the principles of popular government. No man has ever dared call Calvin Coolidge a coward. Still less would a person dare to make that accusation after reading 'Have Faith in Massachusetts.' His only fault is that he preaches in generalities rather than in specific statements. But there is one way in which he stands head and shoulders above the average political speechmaker, and that is that he never stoops to spread-eagleism. The desire for applause seems ever secondary to the desire for the just solution of the question in hand, and for that may Governor Coolidge be placed among the immortals. 'Have Faith in Massachusetts' is not an epoch-making volume, but it proves that the Commonwealth is far more fortunate than most states in its choice of Executive." -The Harvard Advocate

About this title

About the Author:

Calvin Coolidge: Harding's running mate whose tough handling of the 1919 Boston police strike had convinced the Republicans of his presidential potential.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1535311282
• ISBN 13: 9781535311281
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164