Calvin Coolidge actually said...

It is pleasurable and easy to give. It is difficult to withhold.

Address at the Twelfth Regular Meeting of the Business Organization of the Government, Washington, D.C.

01/28/1927

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I haven't changed my views on it.

What I desire especially to do is to get our merchant fleet into private operation, with sufficient guarantees to have it kept in operation.

We have just had an experience in building $3,500,000,000 worth of ships on which we lost over $3,000,000,000.

In accordance with custom, I would rather you didn't publish the date of my going.