Tag Archive for "freedom" | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

The Navy as an Instrument of Peace

June 17, 2020

Title: The Navy as an Instrument of Peace Date: June 3, 1925 Location: Annapolis, MD Context: The commencement address to the United States Naval Academy The poet reminds us that […]

Tags: Culture, Duty, freedom, Heritage, Knowledge, Liberty, National Defense, Peace, Professional, Security

The Green Mountains

April 14, 2020

Title: The Green Mountains Date: June 12, 1923 Location: Burlington, VT Context: 150th anniversary of the settlement of the city of Burlington We do not meet to-day so much to […]

Tags: American Revolution, Burlington, Ethan Allen, freedom, Green Mountain State, Patriots, Statehood, Vermont

The Price of Freedom

April 7, 2020

Title: The Price of Freedom Date: January 21, 1923 Location: Evanston, IL Context: Coolidge delivers a speech to The Evanston Sunday Afternoon Club, which was started during World War I. […]

Tags: Authority, freedom, Government, independence, patriotism, Sunday service

Title: Bunker Hill Day Date: June 17, 1918 Location: Roxbury, MA Context: A speech on reverence and patriotism throughout our foreign affairs given at Roxbury Historical Society (Original document available here) Reverence […]

Tags: Barbarism, Bunker Hill, civilization, Divine Law, Equality, freedom, George Washington, God, Heroes, History, Law of the Jungle, Liberty, military, Morality, patriot, patriotism, preparedness, Privilege, Prussia, Renaissance, Revolutionary War, rights, Sacrifice, Super-man, Tyranny, War, World War I

Amherst Alumni Dinner

April 24, 2014

Title: Amherst College Alumni Dinner Date: March 15, 1918 Location: Springfield, Massachusetts Context: Addressing Amherst Alumni on what the College does for America and for its students (Original document available here) The individual may […]

Tags: civilization, Democracy, enduring, freedom, higher institutions of learning, Liberty, mankind, military service, moral power, moral victory, obligation, War