Calvin Coolidge

The tax measure I would say was the most important piece of legislation.

I also want to thank you for the consideration with which you have always treated the Presidential office during the time that I have been President.

I wish to take this opportunity to express my amazement at the constant correctness of my views as you report them to the country.

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful.

No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence.

The ultimate sanction of law rests on the righteous authority of the Almighty.

If all men are created equal, that is final.

The real heart of the American Government depends upon the heart of the people.

Whatever dangers threaten, the Nation remains secure in the knowledge that the ultimate application of the law of the land will provide an adequate defense and protection.

The orderly management of our affairs is a perpetual test of our ability.

Individual effort brings collective results.

The improvement in the public service is apparent and expressive.

We are not striving to save the dollar at the expense of the public service.

The effort has been to improve the public service by elimination of waste and lost motion and by constructive conservation of our resources.

So that I very reluctantly came to the conclusion that it was necessary to have this done.

I confess that I regard that as a very painful operation.

I think it is fairly safe, but it is a developing situation.

I thought that perhaps after the Congress adjourns next March.

The condition of the Treasury, which now is being supplied so largely from income taxes, is very greatly dependent upon the general condition of business throughout the country.

Our trouble is not with the present year, as I have said.

We may wonder at their need of constant restatement, reiteration, and defense.

No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government.

Our country ought to be done with all sectional divisions and all actions based upon geographical lines.

No one who is interested in the early beginnings of America, or who is moved by love of our country, could come into these historic and hallowed surroundings without being conscious of a deep sense of reverence.

I want to see the policy adopted by the States of discharging their public functions so faithfully that instead of an extension on the part of the Federal Government there can be a contraction.