Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I have talked with some of the leaders of the House relative to the flood control bill."

"I don't think that in passing a bill of this kind the opportunity should be seized on to put the Government in a position where it would have to endow them with very large damages."

"Measured by that standard, the results are exceedingly satisfactory."

"It was obvious that the farther away from them the power of government was located, and the less control they had over it, the more danger there was that it would be exercised arbitrarily and despotic..."