Posted on 05/15/2017 6:23:10 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever
President Calvin Coolidge warned in a speech given MAY 15, 1926, at the College of William and Mary: "But there is another ... recent development ... the greatly disproportionate influence of organized minorities.
Artificial propaganda, paid agitators, selfish interests, all impinge upon members of legislative bodies to force them to represent special elements rather than the great body of their constituency.
When they are successful, minority rule is established ...
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One rests on righteousness, the other rests on force. One appeals to reason, the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in a republic, the other is represented by a despotism ..." - Calvin Coolidge
As in the tearing down of Confederate monuments.
They represent the two polar opposites. Most government are somewhere in between the poles. I seems that they are born at pole of freedom and age toward the pole of centralized power.
The more I hear from President Coolidge the more I respect him.
Coolidge reflects both Robert Charles Winthrop— The Bible or the Bayonet speech before the Mass. Bible Society(do they still have such a powerful organ?) [May28,1849-quoted in America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations pp. 701-702 n.217 and Noah Webster ,1833 translation of the Holy Bible, ibid pp.679-80 n. 145. Three independent witness’s to the same Truth.All from Federer.
Coolidge reflects both Robert Charles Winthrop— The Bible or the Bayonet speech before the Mass. Bible Society(do they still have such a powerful organ?) [May28,1849-quoted in America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations pp. 701-702 n.217 and Noah Webster ,1833 translation of the Holy Bible, ibid pp.679-80 n. 145. Three independent witness’s to the same Truth.All from Federer.
William Federer’s THE AMERICAN MINUTE should be mandatory reading in every public high school, jr. college, and university. A country that does not know its history has no future.
https://americanminute.com/index.php
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.” ― Alexander Hamilton
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