Calvin Coolidge

Each generation has its problems.

After enumerating many of the spiritual ideals, the Scriptures enjoin us to 'think on these things.'

It is impossible to lay too much emphasis upon the necessity of making all our political action of the Federal Government harmonize with the principle of national unity.

The principle that those who think alike ought to be able to act alike wherever they happen to live should be supplemented by another rule for the continuation of the contentment and tranquillity of our Republic.

It is difficult to determine where or when the great movements in human progress had their original inception.

I deem it necessary for the discipline of our military forces that the judgment of the efficiency board should be accepted by the President and the Congress as final unless some information develops which was not known at the time of their…

Nothing in this record indicates that such is the case in relation to Captain Rothwell, and I have therefore reluctantly come to the conclusion that I must return this act without my approval.

The Boy Scout movement has been instituted in order that the youth, instead of falling under the domination of habits and actions that lead only to destruction, may come under the discipline of a training that leads to eternal life.

We are what that struggle has made us.

The more I have studied this movement, its inception, purposes, organization, and principles, the more I have been impressed.

The boy on becoming a scout binds himself on his honor to do his best, as the oath reads:

On each one of us rests a moral obligation to do our share of the world's work.

What a formula for developing moral and spiritual character!

Since 1910, 3,000,000 boys in the United States have been scouts - one out of every even eligible.

Though the environment has greatly changed, human nature has not changed.

The public welfare, success, and prosperity of the Nation will depend upon the proper coordination of all these various efforts and upon each loyally performing the service undertaken.

They can be secured only through action.

While I can't occupy more than one place during the summer, it is very nice to have brought to the general public's attention the availability of all these different localities for other people that are seeking places to go during the…

I have taken those under consideration and of course have a good many places offered.

This is not a partisan question, but a patriotic question.

While acknowledging the courtesy of the invitation of the League of Nations to attend such a meeting, I do not feel that any useful purpose could be served by the designation of a delegate by my Government to attend a Conference for this…

We live in a republic.

Citizenship in America is not a private enterprise, but a public function.

It is exceedingly wholesome to stop and contemplate that undisputed fact from time to time.

The Revolutionary period has always appeared to me to be significant for three definite reasons.