Calvin Coolidge

And those two things together would necessarily be a reason for doing more business of that kind that is transacted by brokers and would naturally result in a larger sum of money being used for that purpose.

I think it is safe to say that both the Army and the Navy are in better shape than they ever were before in time of peace.

My budget estimates for the present year are creeping up towards $100,000,000 more for national defense for the War Department and the Navy Department than they were for the appropriations two or three years ago.

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 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.

Congress is disposed to be very liberal in providing for national defense.

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

I don't know of any special Christmas pardons that are likely to come along.

I don't want to keep getting jackknives under false pretenses.

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.

I don't recall that I ever made any suggestion that after I finished my term of office I was going to engage in the occupation of whittling.

I am issuing pardons all the time, so that so far as pardons are concerned every day is Christmas over here.

I have no doubt that his going there will increase the friendly relations between the people of Mexico and the people of the United States

All reports of that kind are without any foundation and will be unless they are officially announced by me

I haven't any present intention of going back on that end of Pennsylvania Avenue

His flight there has had a very pleasing effect

While I remain in the office of President I do not expect to make any arrangement whatever for any future kind of employment

My desire to establish as soon as can be an air service between this country and the countries south of the Rio Grande

I have referred to the State Department a suggestion that came to me that something might be secured relative to the World Court by further negotiations.

So far as I know, they were not of a nature that encouraged the thought that further negotiation might bring about positive results, and so far as I have made inquiry of men in the Senate who were very friendly to the World Court proposal…

I do not think the question of whether a man might be called a military man or not is one of very great importance in relation to the Governor Generalship of the Philippine Islands.

I think this—that the Governor Generalship of the Philippine Islands would probably be better administered, as any civil office would be, by a man who didn't have a predominantly military type of mind.

Too little is known of the beauties, advantages, and possibilities of this Commonwealth.

This is built, stone upon stone, forming a solid and harmonious structure, just as America is composed of 48 States joined by the cohesive power of our Constitution.

I am expecting to go.