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President Calvin Coolidge warned in a speech given May 15, 1926,
at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia:
"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. _ The result
is an extravagance on the part of the Government which is ruinous
to the people and a multiplicity of regulations and restrictions
for the conduct of all kinds of necessary business, which becomes
little less than oppressive. _"
Coolidge continued: "No plan of centralization has ever been
adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny,
inflexibility, reaction, and decline. Of all forms of government,
those administered by bureaus are about the least satisfactory to
an enlightened and progressive people. Being irresponsible they
become autocratic. _ Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted it
breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.
It _ sets up the pretense of having authority over everybody and
being responsible to nobody. _"
Coolidge added: "We must also recognize that the national
administration is not and cannot be adjusted to the needs of
local government. _ The States should not be induced by coercion
or by favor to surrender the management of their own affairs. The
Federal Government ought to resist the tendency to be loaded up
with duties which the States should perform. It does not follow
that because something ought to be done the National Government
ought to do it. _ I want to see the policy adopted by the States
of discharging their public functions so faithfully that instead
of an extension on the part of the Federal Government there can
be a contraction. _ The principles of government have the same
need to be fortified, reinforced, and supported that characterize
the principles of religion."
Calvin Coolidge stated at the unveiling of the equestrian statue
of Bishop Francis Asbury, Oct. 15, 1924, Washington, DC: "There
are only two main theories of government in the world. 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. The history of
government on this earth has been almost entirely a history of
the rule of force held in the hands of a few. Under our
Constitution, America committed itself to _ the power in the
hands of the people. _ Our government rests upon religion. It is
from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and
justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind.
Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe
in our government."
President Calvin Coolidge stated on Sept. 21, 1924, in an address
to the Holy Name Society in Washington, D.C.: "Equality is
recognized _ from belief in the brotherhood of man through the
fatherhood of God. _ It seems perfectly plain that the right to
equality has for its foundation reverence for God. If we could
imagine that swept away our American government could not long
survive."
Calvin Coolidge stated at the 150th Anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, July 5, 1926: "The
principles _ which went into the Declaration of Independence _
are found in _ the sermons _ of the early colonial clergy who
were earnestly undertaking to instruct their congregations in the
great mystery of how to live. They preached equality because they
believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
They justified freedom by the text that we are all created in the
divine image. _ Placing every man on a plane where he
acknowledged no superiors, where no one possessed any right to
rule over him, he must inevitably choose his own rulers through a
system of self-government. _ In order that they might have
freedom to express these thoughts and opportunity to put them
into action, whole congregations with their pastors migrated to
the colonies. _"
Coolidge concluded: "The Declaration of Independence is a great
spiritual document. _ Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the
rights of man - these are _ ideals. They have their source and
their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the
unseen world. Unless the faith of the American in these religious
convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will
perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and
abandon the cause."
...AmericanMinute.com.
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