Calvin Coolidge

No more enticing subject for discussion exists than the success with which our country has been blessed from the Revolutionary period down to the present hour.

We reach the conclusion that it is desirable to understand the principles and policies which have contributed to our success and attempt to continue to keep them in operation.

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 built our institutions around the rights of the individual.

Without clear comprehension of the direction from which we have come, we can not chart the direction in which we should go.

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

Such actions are always taken on the assumption that they are a public benefit.

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 there was that it would be exercised arbitrarily and despotically.

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

Measured by that standard, the results are exceedingly satisfactory.

It is impossible to comprehend the problems of the present without being informed concerning the problems of the past.

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

It leaves the United States Government also to pay all the major costs of maintenance, which it has never done before.

It becomes a bestowal of favors on certain localities and naturally if one locality is to be favored, all the other localities in the United States think that they ought to come in under the same plan and have their floods taken care of.

This undertakes to have the United States go in and assume the entire burden.

It almost seems to me as though the protection of the people and the property in the lower Mississippi that need protection has been somewhat lost sight of.

I should like very much to have a measure for helping the farmer in accordance with my various messages to the Congress.

You will notice I have a new addition to the conference.

Another dog has come in.

But he has been willing to come over here.

That is a dog that is very much attached to my wife and he is very disconsolate in the absence of his mistress.

I have not received their formal report on it.

I think that is the outstanding feature.

So you can see that the Alien Property bill has some merit in it.

I have several departments making a study of the Alien Property bill.