My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Your assertion that the Commissioner was wrong cannot justify the wrong of leaving the city unguarded. That furnished the opportunity; the criminal element furnished the action. There is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anywhere, any time. … I am equally determined to defend the sovereignty of Massachusetts and to maintain the authority and jurisdiction over her public officers where it has been placed by the Constitution and laws of her people.Telegram from Governor Calvin Coolidge to Samuel Gompers, September 14, 1919