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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
—Calvin Coolidge—

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Coolidge said this in “Have Faith in Massachusetts: Massachusetts Senate President Acceptance Speech,” which he delivered on January 7, 1914. Here is the immediate context of the statement.

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.