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.
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