Calvin Coolidge

I recommend that there be authorized further appropriation of $75,000 to cover the expenses of American participation in the forthcoming activities of the preparatory commission.

Of course, our diplomatic relations suffer somewhat, I suppose all countries do, from volunteer activities of people without any authority.

I never knew of any preliminary movement on the part of this Government to re-establish diplomatic relations with Russia.

We have a great deal of that in Europe.

I don't have Russia particularly in mind, but all the governments of Europe.

The organization of the American Government is quite different from that of Europe, which probably results in European governments and certainly European people oftentimes being misled.

There are a great many Americans that go over there that undertake to say and do things that do not represent the position of the American Government and I think oftentimes result in misleading foreign people and foreign governments.

We ought not to shrink from sacrifice to make that inspired vision a practical reality.

It has been apparent to me that the press has been considerably misled in respect to American activities in that country.

I don't know as there is much of anything that I can say about Nicaragua.

The landing force has not molested him in any way.

The marines are there simply for the protection of American and foreign lives and property wherever it may be necessary.

This Government is not taking any sides, one way or the other, in relation to the revolution.

Failure to support the Constitution and observe the law ought not to be tolerated by public opinion.

Several hundred thousands of them are on the payrolls of the United States Government.

It is axiomatic that no agricultural and industrial country can get the full benefit of its own advantages without a merchant marine.

Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money.

What I desire to advocate most earnestly is relief for the country from unnecessary tax burdens.

Attention is again directed to the surplus problem of agriculture by the present cotton situation.

It would be difficult to conceive of any modern activity which contributes more to the necessities and conveniences of life than transportation.

Nothing is more destructive of the progress of the Nation than government extravagance.

The important place which agriculture holds in the economic and social life of the Nation can not be overestimated.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described public lands in the State of Arizona be withdrawn from settlement, entry, sale or other disposition, and set apart for use in connection with the San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project

I speak of that as an indication of the devotion that General Wood has shown towards his duties and his intense loyalty in their discharge.

A person accustomed to our temperate climate ought to have an opportunity to get out of a climate as warm and trying as that of the Philippines for a considerable length of time, much oftener than five years.