Date: July 30, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) In Canada the Liberal party has lost control of the government in the recent election, and the Conservative party will have a clear working majority in the incoming parliament. Two elements contributed to this result. The first was business depression, which usually works against the […]
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Date: January 29, 1931 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) We are very far from solving all our problems of government. We can feel fairly secure about our national government. Many unsound proposals will be made in it, but they will not often prevail. Our state governments are generally satisfactory. Sometimes they are too radical, […]
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Date: August 15, 1930 Location: Northampton, MA (Original document available here) The right to vote is the very essence to self-government. It is a privilege we are too prone to assume is self-existent, and therefore unimportant. It is the foundation of our liberties. If this source be defiled, the whole body politic becomes contaminated. At […]
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Date: November 4, 1924 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I don’t know if I have any very specific information about the proposed loan to France. That would go along in accordance with the general policy of our Government, which is to look with favor on loans made for the purpose of restoring Europe […]
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Title: Riverside Date: August 28, 1916 Location: Riverside, MA Context: Lieutenant Governor campaign speech It may be that there would be votes for the Republican Party in the promise of low taxes and vanishing expenditures. I can see an opportunity for its candidates to pose as the apostles of retrenchment and reform. I am not […]
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