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    The duty of government
    Duty     Speech by Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. "Law must rest upon the eternal foundations of righteousness... The government is founded upon a righteousness which will endure."
    • Contributor: A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress) - Coolidge, Calvin - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1920
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    Law and order Speech by Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. "Government is not and must not be a cold, impersonal machine...government must govern. To obey is life; to disobey is death. Organized government is the expression of the life of the commonwealth." Coolidge calls for opposing "imported ideas" and for "prosecution of the criminals and education of the ignorant."
    • Contributor: A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress) - Coolidge, Calvin - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1920
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    America and the war Speech by Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. "Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality."
    • Contributor: A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress) - Coolidge, Calvin - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1920
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    Law and order Speech by Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. "Government is not and must not be a cold, impersonal machine...government must govern. To obey is life; to disobey is death. Organized government is the expression of the life of the commonwealth." Coolidge calls for opposing "imported ideas" and for "prosecution of the criminals and education of the ignorant."
    • Contributor: A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress) - Coolidge, Calvin - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1920
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    Law and order Speech by Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. "Government is not and must not be a cold, impersonal machine...government must govern. To obey is life; to disobey is death. Organized government is the expression of the life of the commonwealth." Coolidge calls for opposing "imported ideas" and for "prosecution of the criminals and education of the ignorant."
    • Contributor: A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress) - Coolidge, Calvin - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1920
  • Audio Recording
    Law and order Speech by Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. "Government is not and must not be a cold, impersonal machine...government must govern. To obey is life; to disobey is death. Organized government is the expression of the life of the commonwealth." Coolidge calls for opposing "imported ideas" and for "prosecution of the criminals and education of the ignorant."
    • Contributor: A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress) - Coolidge, Calvin - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1920
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    Equal rights Fourth of July oration by Governor Calvin Coolidge to celebrate "the beginning of a government that was to recognize the power, the worth, and the dignity of man."
    • Contributor: Coolidge, Calvin - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1920
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    American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I The Nation's Forum recordings were made between 1918 and 1920 in an effort to preserve the voices of prominent Americans; in most cases, they are the only surviving recordings of a speaker. The project originated with St. Louis attorney Guy Golterman (1879-1967), an active supporter of the opera and other performing arts. With the endorsement of the Department of State's Committee on Public Information…
    • Contributor: Hitchcock, Gilbert M. (Gilbert Monell) - Poindexter, Miles - Palmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell) - Daniels, Josephus - Owen, Robert L. (Robert Latham) - Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) - Colby, Bainbridge - Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison) - Gompers, Samuel - Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) ... Hitchcock, Gilbert M. (Gilbert Monell) - Poindexter, Miles - Palmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell) - Daniels, Josephus - Owen, Robert L. (Robert Latham) - Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) - Colby, Bainbridge - Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison) - Gompers, Samuel - Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) - Cox, James M. (James Middleton) - Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt - Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison) - Cummings, Homer S. (Homer StillĂ©) - Purdy, Richard A. (Richard Augustus) - Butler, Nicholas Murray - Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) - Baker, Newton Diehl - Long, Breckinridge - Lane, Franklin K. - Lewis, James - Lodge, Henry Cabot - Gerard, James W. (James Watson) - McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs) - White, George - Clark, Champ - Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur) - De Valera, Éamon - Coolidge, Calvin - Wood, Leonard
    • Date: 1918

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