HAVE FAITH
IN
MASSACHUSETTS
HAVE FAITH
IN
MASSACHUSETTS
BY
CALVIN COOLIDGE
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
There are certain fundamental principles of sound community life whichcannot be stated too emphatically or too often. Few public men of to-dayhave shown a finer combination of right feeling and clear thinking aboutthese principles, with a gift for the pithy expression of them, than hasGovernor Calvin Coolidge. It was an accurate phrase that PresidentMeiklejohn used when, in conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws on himat Amherst College last June, he complimented him on teaching the lessonof "adequate brevity."
His speeches and messages abound in evidences of this gift, but in themain the speeches are not easily accessible. It has seemed to some ofGovernor Coolidge's admirers, as it has to the publishers of this littlevolume, that a real public service might be rendered by making acareful selection from the best of the speeches and issuing them in anattractive and convenient form. With his permission this has been done,and it is hoped that many readers will welcome the book in this time ofspecial need of inspiring and steadying influences.
It is a time when all men should realize that, in the words of GovernorCoolidge himself, "Laws must rest on the eternal foundations ofrighteousness"; that "Industry, thrift, character are not conferred byact or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil." It is a time whenwe must "have faith in Massachusetts. We need a broader, firmer, deeperfaith in the people,—a faith that men desire to do right, that theCommonwealth is founded upon a righteousness which will endure."
THE EDITORS
Boston, September, 1919
NOTE TO SECOND EDITION
In the issue of a second edition of this collection of GovernorCoolidge's speeches and messages, the opportunity has been taken to adda proclamation and three recently delivered addresses, which bring thevolume practically up to the date of publication.
Boston, October, 1919
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency
CALVIN COOLIDGE
GOVERNOR
A PROCLAMATION
Massachusetts has many glories. The last one she would wish to surrenderis the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotionlives the Commonwealth is secure. Whatever danger