Calvin Coolidge

One-fourth of our soil is better suited to timber-growing than anything else.

It is not enough that the Federal and State governments have joined hands with the landowner in the first step toward forest rehabilitation, protection against fire.

Consider what blessings the use of this land for intensive forest culture would bring to our country.

I do earnestly urge that during that week the thought of all citizens be directed to the need of preventing forest fires and to the measures necessary for the preservation and wise use of our forests.

Each recommendation for the award of the decoration will show, in case of the person who is being recommended, the exact status of that person at the time he displayed the heroism or extraordinary achievement upon which the recommendation…

The initial recommendation for the award of the decoration may be made by any officer having information of the facts.

I don't know whether it would be feasible to secure any agreement with Japan and Great Britain.

A recommendation must be based upon the statement of a person who has personal knowledge concerning the act of heroism or extraordinary achievement or who was an eye-witness thereto, preferably the immediate commander.

For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of Section 12 of the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1926, relative to the authorization of a distinguished flying cross, the following rules and regulations pertaining to the award…

It might be that some progress could be made by a three-power agreement.

When a recommendation is supported by an official record that fact will be stated, and there will be included in the recommendation such information as will enable a prompt and certain identification of such record.

In wisdom of action, in purity of character, he stands alone.

Let us united, in imploring the Supreme Ruler of nations, to spread His holy protection over these United States.

In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.

Washington has come to personify the American Republic.

Ratios for capital ships and aircraft carriers were established by that treaty which would not be affected in any way by an agreement covering other classes of ships.

The conviction that the competitive augmentation of national armaments has been one of the principal causes of international suspicion and ill will, leading to war, is firmly held by the American Government and people.

The problem of the limitation of naval armament, while not regional in character or susceptible of regional treatment, has been successfully treated, in part, by an agreement among the five leading naval powers, and, in my opinion, can be…

The American Government is most anxious that concrete results in the limitation of armament may be achieved.

Our delegates at Geneva have consistently expressed the view that under conditions as they exist in the world to-day the problems of land and air armaments are most susceptible of solution by regional agreements covering regions within…

It is my intention that the American representatives at Geneva should continue to discuss with the representatives of the other nations there the program for a general limitation of armaments conference.

The moment seems particularly opportune to try to secure further limitation of armament in accordance with the expressed will of the Congress.

It has been the hope of the American Government, constantly expressed by the Congress since the Washington Conference, that a favorable opportunity might present itself to complete the work begun here by the conclusion of further…

For more than six months, representatives of a score or more of nations have examined from all points of view the problem of the reduction and limitation of armaments.