Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"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."

"If the American Revolution had one note that was more dominant than another, it was the principle that the people were competent to run their own business and manage their own government."

"We have every desire to see that great people, who are traditional friends, restored to their position among the nations of the earth."