Calvin Coolidge actually said...

If it is a meritorious project, it ought to go through on its own steam, and not be hitched on to something else.

Excerpts of the President's News Conference

04/30/1928

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Doing less would betray them and dishonor us.

In ordinary times nearly the entire burden of taxation represents state and local demands.

They glossed over no wrongs, they hid away no skeletons.

United, it could go its way in all security; divided, both sections becoming the prey of jealousy and intrigue, would have dissipated all th...