Calvin Coolidge actually said...

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...

It is impossible to comprehend the problems of the present without being informed concerning the problems of the past.

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

Without clear comprehension of the direction from which we have come, we can not chart the direction in which we should go.