Calvin Coolidge

A part of that success is due to you gentlemen who are here in the room and have done more to interpret me and my policies to the country than I could do myself.

The only way to be free is to exercise actively and energetically the privileges, and discharge faithfully the duties which make freedom.

America, more thoroughly than any other country, has adopted a system of self government.

That is a function which cannot be delegated, which cannot be postponed.

The immediate and pressing obligation for tomorrow is that each one of us who is qualified shall vote.

The right action of all of us is made up of the right action of each one of us.

Sometimes we refer to it as the rule of the people.

No decision that the people have made in any great crisis has ever shown that faith in them has been misplaced.

That is the ballot box.

The people of our country are sovereign.

The Jewish people have always and everywhere been particularly devoted to the ideal of taking care of their own.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

I believe in budgets.

I haven't any specific reports about any states.

My reports indicate that I shall probably carry Northampton.

That is based more on experience.

As soon as it was established, it was taken care of.

In my judgment no more of the land can be disposed of at said price.

I haven't seen the protest.

We might consider a practical policy to pursue.

I believe in the American Constitution.

I am opposed to any general extension of Government ownership and control.

Remember that nature is your great restorer.

A new importance is attaching to the cause of education.

It increases the salaries of clerks and carriers $300 each and of rural carriers on the average $293 for each carrier on a standard route.