Calvin Coolidge actually said...

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 hav...

I don't think the Senate understood it, what its implications were, or what is behind it.

I don't know of any proposal that has been made, certainly since I have been President, and I doubt if any was ever made, of such an extorti...

When authority is located afar off, it is necessarily less well informed, less sympathetic, and less responsive to public requirements.