Calvin Coolidge Quote

This was an age-old conflict. At its foundation lies the question of how can the Government govern and the people be free? How can organized society make and enforce laws and the individual remain independent? There is no short sighted answer to these inquiries. Whatever may have been the ambiguity in the Federal Constitution, of course the Union had to be supreme within its sphere or cease to be a Union. It was also certain and obvious that each State had to be sovereign within its sphere or cease to be a State.


Freedom and its Obligations (1924)


This was an age-old conflict. At its foundation lies the question of how can the Government govern and the people be free? How can organized society...

This was an age-old conflict. At its foundation lies the question of how can the Government govern and the people be free? How can organized society...

This was an age-old conflict. At its foundation lies the question of how can the Government govern and the people be free? How can organized society...

This was an age-old conflict. At its foundation lies the question of how can the Government govern and the people be free? How can organized society...