By Tara Ross – April 25, 2023

One of the first efforts of all kinds of absolutism is to control the press and the schools as the sources of information and education of the people.” On this day in history, a timely quote from Silent Cal.

President Coolidge’s statement, in full:

“One of the first efforts of all kinds of absolutism is to control the press and the schools as the sources of information and education of the people. Where the press is free, as it is in our country under the guaranties of the National and State Constitutions, it has a reciprocal duty of its own to perform toward the administration of the Government, of giving true reports to the people of the actions of public officials. To do otherwise would be to establish a petty tyranny of its own.”

Tara Ross