Calvin Coolidge

An increase in said duty on wheat from 30 cents per bushel of sixty pounds to 42 cents per bushel of sixty pounds;

I do hereby determine and proclaim that the increases and decreases in the rates of duty provided in said Act shown by said ascertained differences in said costs of production necessary to equalize the same, are as follows:

I do hereby proclaim, declare and make known that nothing contained in this proclamation is intended to remove, or to authorize the removal of, any charge of desertion

Shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment

I do hereby declare and grant amnesty and pardon to all persons who have heretofore been or may hereafter be convicted of desertion from the military or naval service of the United States in time of war

Done at the City of Washington this fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four

If it will be beneficial to the farmers, I think the country ought to adopt it, even though it might cost something out of the public treasury, though it is claimed that that would not be the case under the provisions of the bill.

I have never been able to make up my mind entirely about the benefits that this bill would secure to the farmers, and for that reason I have had it under investigation by experts.

We want a man of course of ability and character, and if I can find a great merchant, or if I can find the head of a great industrial or manufacturing establishment that would meet the requirements that I have in mind, I shall submit his…

It is very pressing, and an important problem.

I am in entire sympathy with the objects of this bill, which is to benefit the wheat raisers.

I have only had a telegram and a short note from the Attorney General since he left Washington.

I have an inquiry here about the McNary-Haugen bill.

I haven't yet been able to make up my mind about a successor to Mr. Denby.

If my investigation leads me to that conclusion, I shall favor it.

For the purpose of insuring liberty, for enactment of sound legislation, for the administration of even-handed justice, for the faithful execution of the laws, no institutions have ever given greater promise or more worthy performance than…

Self-government does not purge us of all our faults, but there are very few students of the affairs of mankind who would deny that the theory upon which our institutions proceed gives the best results that have ever been given to any…

Under the Constitution of the United States there is neither any peasantry nor any order of nobility.

The America which Washington founded does not mean we shall have everything done for us, but that we shall have every opportunity to do everything for ourselves.

It is liberty only through the acceptance of responsibility.

He left the world stronger and better. He made life broader and sweeter.

When there is a failure it is not because the system has failed, but because we have failed.

I haven't given any special consideration to the selection of a successor to Mr. Denby.

In that direction I think our commercial welfare lies to a good deal of an extent.

I don't know just how far I can go hereafter in giving out any information about the oil lease cases.