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By Calvin Coolidge
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Source
- Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (second edition), 1919 · Chapter XXVIII, "Veto of Salary Increase," p. 173
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1919 second edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin)
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From Coolidge's message vetoing a pay raise for members of the Massachusetts legislature (the General Court), when he was Governor of Massachusetts in spring 1919. It is printed in Have Faith in Massachusetts (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919). It is not from his Autobiography, as is sometimes claimed.