Calvin Coolidge actually said...

My hesitation about him is to decide whether he would be of more value here in Washington serving in the Department, or of more value in China.

Excerpts of the President's News Conference

03/26/1925

More Calvin Coolidge Quotes

The spirit of liberty is universal.

It is better for the people to make their own mistakes than to have some one else make their mistakes for them.

Our most sacred trust has been, and is, the establishment and expansion of the spirit of democracy.

Next to our attachment to the principle of self-government has been our attachment to the policy of peace.