Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (elected vice president in 1920, and succeeding to the presidency upon the death of Warren G. Harding). History.com image
Referring to progress in the U.S. after World War I, Coolidge said:
With peace has come prosperity. Burdens have been great, but the strength to bear them has been greater. The condition of those who toil is higher, better, more secure than in all the ages past. Out of the darkness of a great conflict has appeared the vision, nearer, clearer than ever before, of a life on earth less and less under the deadening restraint of force, more and more under the vitalizing influence of reason. Moral power has been triumphing over physical power. With peace has come prosperity. Burdens have been great, but the strength to bear them has been greater. The condition of those who toil is higher, better, more secure than in all the ages past. Out of the darkness of a great conflict has appeared the vision
of anearer, clearer than ever before,the[of] life on earth less and less under the deadening restraint of force, more and more under the vitalizing influence of reason. Moral power has been triumphing over physical power. Education will tend to bring reason and experience of the past into the solution of the problems of the future. We must look to service and not selfishness, for service is the foundation of progress. The greatest lesson that we have to learn is to seek ever the public welfare, to build up, to maintain our American heritage.
Candidate for vice president Calvin Coolidge, “America and the War,” 1920
Digging a little deeper, I discover that the first part of this quote also appeared in Coolidge’s Thanksgiving Proclamation on November 27, 1919, when he was Governor of Massachusetts. Knowing a good turn of words when he wrote it (I’m assuming he didn’t have ghost writers then), he used the same words in making phonograph recordings of speeches to be distributed in the election campaign of 1920, before radio was available to carry speeches to voters. I have made minor corrections in the transcript, from the earlier text and the audio delivery.
According to Talking History, the 78 rpm record and audio version were saved and made available by the Library of Congress.
You may want to listen to Coolidge say the words himself. Mp3 RealPlayer
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Republicans want to repeal the estate tax..giving the richest .2% a huge tax cut and adding nearly 300 billion dollars to the deficit..which they’ll make the poor and middle class pay for.
This is the real reason the United States is falling apart and why we can’t have nice things..because Republicans worship the top few and their massive greed instead of actually caring about the United States and its people.
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This is interesting. History to check out and flesh out:
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