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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Dec 2, 1924

In time for action at this session, I hope to report to the Congress such legislative remedies as the conference may recommend.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Dec 2, 1924

Nothing is more likely to produce that public confidence which is the forerunner and the mainstay of prosperity, encourage and enlarge business opportunity with ample opportunity for employment at good wages, provide a larger market for…

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Dec 2, 1924

The Government cannot successfully insure prosperity or fix prices by legislative fiat.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Dec 2, 1924

In my opinion the Government can do more to remedy the economic ills of the people by a system of rigid economy in public expenditure than can be accomplished through any other action.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Dec 2, 1924

The fallacy of the claim that the costs of government are borne by the rich and those who make a direct contribution to the National Treasury cannot be too often exposed.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 20, 1924

It seems to me that the Senators themselves can pick out the persons they desire to have for their leader and the other officers of the Senate, and the same is true in respect to the House.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 20, 1924

They can choose such officers as they wish to have in the House to preside over them very much better than I can assist them in that matter.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 20, 1924

I am sure that there are a good many men in both parties capable of filling any position that there is there, and equally confident that anyone that the Senate and House wanted to choose for officers of their respective bodies would be…

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 20, 1924

As I have heard nothing about it from the State Department for some time I had taken it for granted that the situation was cleared up.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 20, 1924

I haven't any plan for the immediate withdrawal of the United States Marines that are now acting as a legation guard in Nicaragua.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 20, 1924

If it is a matter relating to legislation, why then of course I am a party in interest and one that has to act with them, and I am very glad to give my views on that.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 13, 1924

Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, do designate November 17th to 23rd, inclusive, as American Education Week.

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Nov 13, 1924

An educated fool is a sorry spectacle, but he is not nearly so dangerous to society as a rich fool.

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