Calvin Coolidge actually said...

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

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

In spite of every discouragement that has arisen, the general results have demonstrated that the correct theory was adopted.

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...