Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"I think the country can rest fairly easy under the knowledge that the Bureau of Operations of the Navy and the General Staff of the Army are composed of very competent men."

"I think I have had occasion before to comment on the fact that we never get the Army and Navy appropriation bills through without stories of that kind."

"I am having sent to me quite a number of jackknives."

"I would do what I could to cooperate with him and see that the money that was appropriated by the United States Government was put into places where it could be best expended."