Calvin Coolidge actually said...

It was obvious that the farther away from them the power of government was located, and the less control they had over it, the more danger t...

We have built our institutions around the rights of the individual.

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

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