
The improvement in the public service is apparent and expressive.
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The improvement in the public service is apparent and expressive.

Individual effort brings collective results.

We are not striving to save the dollar at the expense of the public service.

The orderly management of our affairs is a perpetual test of our ability.

I confess that I regard that as a very painful operation.

So that I very reluctantly came to the conclusion that it was necessary to have this done.

I thought that perhaps after the Congress adjourns next March.

I think it is fairly safe, but it is a developing situation.

Now, Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge,President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority conferred in me by the said Act of April 27, 1904, do hereby order and direct that any purchaser or entryman of lands within said…

The condition of the Treasury, which now is being supplied so largely from income taxes, is very greatly dependent upon the general condition of business throughout the country.

Our trouble is not with the present year, as I have said.

It is impossible to lay too much emphasis upon the necessity of making all our political action of the Federal Government harmonize with the principle of national unity.

After enumerating many of the spiritual ideals, the Scriptures enjoin us to 'think on these things.'

We may wonder at their need of constant restatement, reiteration, and defense.

No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government.

No one who is interested in the early beginnings of America, or who is moved by love of our country, could come into these historic and hallowed surroundings without being conscious of a deep sense of reverence.

It is difficult to determine where or when the great movements in human progress had their original inception.