Calvin Coolidge

I am having a little party at the Lodge on the afternoon of the 4th of July, partly so far as I am concerned in the celebration of that national birthday and personally in celebration of my own birthday.

I don't know about that. I don't want to make any comment about that.

It had seemed to me that the Department of the Interior, which is the department that has always had charge of our territorial and disconnected possessions like Alaska might be the logical place to put the administration of our insular…

I have all the time advised the Philippine people to show their capacity for self-government by a careful administration of the fundamental law of the Islands, which is the Jones Law, the Organic Law we call it, and apparently they are…

I haven't any plan about that at the present time.

There have been no developments about that.

I don't care to discuss the details of them while the conference is going on.

I don't desire to get any heavier and, perhaps, running through the fields may reduce my weight a little.

I thought the Naval Conference at Geneva started off very well.

I never heard of any such thing and I think it is entirely improbable that such is the case.

I don't know whether Ambassador Herrick will come out here while he is in this country.

I find the general effect of this climate and surroundings to be good.

I think the Secretary of State has already announced that he has sent some message or a note to France relative to it.

It is just exactly what I like.

I had a fine and pleasant trip across the country.

There are no developments, so far as I am aware, in the French proposal relative to outlawing war.

The absence of self-acclaim, the refusal to become commercialized, which has marked the conduct of this sincere and genuine exemplar of fine and noble virtues, has endeared him to everyone.

I hope we may have good weather and that the press anticipates the enjoyment of it as much as I do.

I am expecting to go down to review the Fleet, as the press already knows.

It isn't possible for the President to make public comment on letters of that kind.

I haven't seen the Goldsmith open letter which is said to have been addressed to me and which has been published in Canada.

It is to those had that will, who showed that determination, that we today do honor.

It is because of our belief in these principles that we wish to see all the world relieved from strife and conflict and brought under the humanizing influence of a reign of law.

If we desire to be an influence in order and law, tranquility and good will in the world, we must be determined to make sufficient sacrifices to live by these precepts at home.

We have robbed no people of their independence, we have laid on no country the hand of oppression.