Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"America has a just right to satisfaction and pride in the personnel and purpose of its Army and Navy."

"I suggested to them also the great desirability of a general knowledge on the Island of the English language."

"While I appreciated the desirability of maintaining their grasp on the Spanish language, the beauty of that language and the richness of its literature, that as a practical matter for them it was quit..."

"I thought that it would be very much easier for them to understand us, and for us to understand them, if they had a good working knowledge of the English language."