Calvin Coolidge

Well, I want constant effort in that direction, a constant checking up by the department to see whether they have any more employees than is necessary to carry on the work of the department.

NO, that is for every department to work out itself.

It is in this direction that the public press can lend its strongest support to our Government.

The chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

The chief business of the American people is business.

The American newspapers serve a double purpose.

It has thrived on ignorance.

Whoever disagrees with this judgment must take the chance of marking himself as ignorant of conditions which notoriously affected our public life, thoughts and methods, even within the memory of many men who are still among us.

The accumulation of wealth means the multiplication of schools, the increase of knowledge, the dissemination of intelligence, the encouragement of science, the broadening of outlook, the expansion of liberties, the widening of culture.

The news giving function of a newspaper cannot possibly require that it give a photographic presentation of everything that happens in the community.

It has been observed that propaganda seeks to close the mind, while education seeks to open it.

An absolutism could never rest upon anything save a perverted and distorted view of human relationships and upon false standards set up and maintained by force.

Business policies must not be affected by editorial programs.

No doubt every generation feels that its problems are the most intricate and baffling that have ever been presented for solution.

Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.

It has always been realized, sometimes instinctively, oftentimes expressly, that truth and freedom are inseparable.

Under a free government it must be the very reverse.

The relationship between governments and the press has always been recognized as a matter of large importance.

I am desirous of promoting the other policy, so I am opposed to elevating the guns at this time.

If we are going to have the policy here of limitation of armaments, we shall never have it by reason of that treaty we have made, but by reason of a public sentiment that exists in the country in favor of that policy.

I am opposed to raising the elevation of the guns on United States battleships for reasons I have already given.

There is nothing I can say in relation to a new arms conference.

I haven't any mature judgment about that.

If the Congress wanted to do this, I don't see any reason why I should oppose it.

I can't give an offhand opinion of it that is of any value.