Calvin Coolidge

The conditions under which employment is undertaken in the Postal Service and those under which it is undertaken in business are not altogether alike.

American citizenship is a high estate.

Here again if we receive anything we must surrender something.

Our Nation has associated itself with other great powers for the purpose of promoting peace in the regions of the Pacific Ocean.

Our Republic was organized to avoid and discourage war, and to promote and establish peace.

Unless I call them in in blocks, I don't have a chance to keep that intimate contact that otherwise I would like to have.

I can only see three or four or five men here in this office an hour, if they come in one at a time, usually for a period of about fifteen minutes.

Unless I call them in in considerable numbers at one time, I don't have a chance to keep up that contact that I would like to keep.

I like to keep in touch, of course, with the members of the House and Senate.

I don't know when I shall call in any more Senators or Representatives to break bread with me.

It shall be the purpose of such conferences to secure a free interchange of all information bearing upon the promotion and protection of American interests.

I am likewise liable not to call them in at all.

Some reports have been coming in to me that in certain lines there is a little slowing up.

I haven't any plan about a summer White House.

What I want is a man of character and ability that will take that office and administer it in accordance with the well known standards of administration of the Attorney General's office.

Now that industry is basic.

I don't think that is highly important.

What I mean by that is that a man in private practice might be able to secure that income.

I haven't been able to reach any decision about appointing an Attorney General.

My own theory is that if the tax bill had been passed as it was introduced by the administration within six weeks or two months after the coming in of Congress, the country would have seen a large increase in business, a stimulation in…

At today's Cabinet meeting I went over a very short and sketchy way the business situation.

I rather imagine that we will stay here, if that is agreeable to you, a very large part of the summer.

At the present time they are getting on remarkably well, but if some means could be provided by which the Governor could be elected by the people of Porto Rico, it would eliminate that difficulty.

That duty is not all performed at the present time.

I think the pending proposal is that it should go into effect in 1935, if the Filipino people about that time will vote for that proposal.