Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"The reports in relation to business conditions in the country seem to be substantially as they have been for the past months."

"It is in that direction especially that I want to avoid increases, so far as we can."

"What I am especially solicitous about is the financial and economic condition of the Government."

"There is no intention, so far as I know, to make any appeal for gifts of Colonial furniture for the White House."