Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"It seems to me that the decision about that would be this—that this is something that the United States Government ought to do."

"I think it would be the best plan, so far as I can judge, to proceed to do this work in accordance with the present law; that is, through the War Department, the Chief of the Bureau of Engineers, and ..."

"In no small degree you are the keepers of the public conscience."

"In a republic the field which is open to the press as an instrument of clean and sound government is limitless."