“Memorial exercises are for the quick not for the dead”

Memorial Address by Calvin Coolidge: May 30, 1914.

In this address, Coolidge outlines the ideals of America. He cites, among other events and movements, the birth of philosophy, the conversion of Rome to Christianity, the Protestant Reformation, and the American Revolution. He also quotes Lincoln, and ends with a few lines borrowed from his speech “Have Faith in Massachusetts,” given a few months earlier.