Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I do hereby admonish all citizens of the United States and every person to abstain from every violation of the provisions of the Joint Resolution above set forth, hereby made applicable to Mexico, and..."

"It would be quite a different proposition in selling a large amount of material that our Government thought it was expected might be used for war purposes between one nation and another."

"I don't think it involves anything further than that."

"This is more a matter of domestic policy than the carrying on of warfare."