Happy Independence Day
They called him “Silent Cal.”
 



Calvin Coolidge, America’s 30th president, was known as a man of few words in his private life.
 
But on the presidential stage, when he had to lead our country, Coolidge spoke with conviction to the American people.
 
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery,” Coolidge said.
 
Appropriately for a man of principle, Coolidge was born on the 4th of July.  As you and I enter into this Independence Day weekend, please enjoy this wisdom spoken by Coolidge on the 150th anniversary of our nation:
 
“We are obliged to conclude that the Declaration of Independence represented the movement of a people.  It was not, of course, a movement from the top.  Revolutions do not come from that direction.
 
It was not because it was proposed to establish a new nation, but because it was proposed to establish a nation on new principles, that July 4, 1776, has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in history.
 
The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.”
 
In a day where the left spits upon our patriotism, as long as I have breath, I will dare to maintain constitutional, liberty-loving, God-fearing convictions.
 
And you are patriotic and courageous.  Thank you for standing with the Leadership Institute to train grassroots conservatives to restore and protect America’s founding principles against those who work to destroy them.

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