Calvin Coolidge actually said...

And we have been able to meet these large increases by absorbing them through economies in other directions.

Excerpts of the President's News Conference

10/10/1927

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It gives the impression abroad that we are trying to coerce them, or something of that kind.

We have too freely spent the rich and magnificent gift that nature bestowed on us.

Our forests ought to be put to work and kept at work.

Let us apply to this creative task the boundless energy and skill we have so long spent in harvesting the free gifts of nature.