Calvin Coolidge

While the foreign relations of this country are becoming more and more important, and constitute a field to which it will be necessary for our Government and our people to give much more attention than is now realized, yet it is our…

Although we are well aware that in the immediate past, and perhaps even now there are certain localities where our citizens would be given over to pillage and murder but for the presence of our military forces, nevertheless it is the…

America has a just right to satisfaction and pride in the personnel and purpose of its Army and Navy.

While I appreciated the desirability of maintaining their grasp on the Spanish language, the beauty of that language and the richness of its literature, that as a practical matter for them it was quite necessary to have a good…

I suggested to them also the great desirability of a general knowledge on the Island of the English language.

I suggested to them that it is always necessary to use care in the raising and expending of the revenue of the government.

I thought that it would be very much easier for them to understand us, and for us to understand them, if they had a good working knowledge of the English language.

I had supposed that the rule about that was that questions that were submitted and not discussed would not be discussed in the press.

I did understand that it was the rule that if a question were submitted to me and was not discussed by me that no report was to be made, one way or the other, about the fact of the submission of the question.

The only thing that I am certain about down there from reports that I have received is that Mr. Stimson is doing his best to compose the differences and find some method by which peace can be restored.

I think perhaps it would be well not to take too literally what the contending sides may think it is necessary to give out as publicity, but keep in mind that the main effort of this country is to restore peace and prevent further…

I have great hopes that Mr. Stimson is going to be able to bring that about.

Perhaps the method that he may employ is not so very important, if it results in bringing about an amicable condition.

I haven't any report today from Nicaragua.

I have happened to see a number of reports of that kind which had a foreign origin that didn't have any foundation.

There is no foundation for the reports, so far as I know, that Mr. MacMurray, our Minister to China, has resigned.

No doubt the most important influence in enlarging trade is advertising.

Our Pan American Union is creating a new civilization in these western Republics, representative of all that is best in the history of the Old World.

A prime requisite of commerce is transportation.

It is our conclusion that while government should encourage international trade [...] those who are actually engaged in the transaction of business must necessarily make their own contacts and establish their own markets.

An exchange of commodities always results in an exchange of ideas.

Not only transportation, but communication, is necessary to commercial interchanged.

Under free governments trade must be free, and to be of permanent value it ought to be independent.

I think it probably wise to look with more or less suspicion on reports concerning the attitude of this Government toward China and its representatives in China which originate out of our country.

Commerce has no other permanent foundation.