Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"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."

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

"No more enticing subject for discussion exists than the success with which our country has been blessed from the Revolutionary period down to the present hour."