Excerpt from Have Faith in Massachusetts - Calvin Coolidge Senate President acceptance speech.

"The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or re solve.
Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self government means self support. Man is born into the universe with a personality that is his own. He has a right that is founded upon the constitution of the universe to have property that is his own. Ultimately, property rights and personal rights are the same thing. The one cannot be preserved if the other be violated. Each man is entitled to his rights and the rewards of his service be they never so large or never so small."

- President Calvin Coolidge, Have Faith in Massachusetts: Senate President Acceptance Speech Jan. 7, 1914