Have Faith in Calvin Coolidge: Or From a Farm House to White House (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Calvin Coolidge, we give you our loyalty, our love, our prayers and our good wishes. We believe absolutely in your ability and in your Christian devotion. We are grateful to God that when our beloved President, Warren G. Harding, was called, you were the one to step into place._ We know you will stand firmly on the right side 'of every moral issue, and that your administration will be for the advancement of America, for the blessing of mankind, and: for the glory of the Kingdom of God on earth.

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Excerpt from Have Faith in Calvin Coolidge: Or From a Farm House to White House

A whole literature is destined to spring up concerning Calvin Coolidge, as has already been the case with Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt and others. This is a certainty. Of this literature these pages are but a humble fore-runner, born as they have been of a fervent enthusiasm, a desire, a prayer - a prayer, which today is in part fulfilled. For seven years we have seen Calvin Coolidge trudging the path that leads to the White House. He has been surefooted, not in haste, working with conscientious precision and devotion. To do the day's work has been his creed, which is orthodox for efficiency. Destiny, or God, or both, have been taking him to the top of the world; now he has arrived, and we find contentment in it. But it has been the order of things. Without financial prestige, without the control of any great newspaper, without patronage or promise, without the accustomed style of oratorical power or a compelling, magnetic personality, without resort to the camouflage that plays on the popular imagination, this silent, unassuming conscientious, mysterious, clear-seeing and clear-thinking man has gone from a little country home of his boyhood in the Vermont hills, the road of duty and of work, and that road has led him by some strange providence, to the greatest political position on earth. We are not afraid of the outcome. He is there for a purpose.

Already some of the politicians are out gunning for him. Mr. Coolidge has stepped into the coveted place of honor and power. Jealousy and ambition are active. But Mr. Coolidge can be counted upon to read these designs. He has been in politics long enough not to be caught in the trap of easy credulity. He is one of the sharpest and shrewdest of politicians, and one of the cleanest. He will not fall or fail. He will so commend himself to all America as a clear-minded and true-hearted citizen, great but unassuming, that his election for the four-year term will be by a tidal wave. America will talk for him in majorities, every vote being a testimonial of admiration, confidence and faith. All America, will be saying "We have faith in Calvin Coolidge." His poise, his silence, his compact speech, his undramatic labor, his candour and courage in a critical crisis, his analysis and comprehensive grasp of the truth, his intellect, and in particular his conception of the spiritual origin and purpose of government will win for him the enthusiasms both of faith and affection.

As a speaker and writer Calvin Coolidge is unique. The power of his thought, the terse sentences, the chaste diction, the epigramatic style, the cold intellectual presentation of political truth with a spiritual emphasis make us lose ourselves in wonderment as to the man and as to whether or no he will be belated in the full appreciation of his contemporaries. He deals exclusively with essentials, the bones and framework of truth, ever with the philosophic touch and with not a spare word. His: book "Have Faith in Massachusetts" is evidence of our justified interest in his power. Chapters could be written upon his power of speech, as well as upon his power of silence. When, he has something to say, he says it, and quits. There is no froth, no foam, no raving, no roaring, no beating the air and howling, - all is compact thought, clothed in chaste and direct English. Anything he puts into print is a classic.

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