Calvin Coolidge

But, having reached this position, we should not fail to comprehend that it can easily be lost.

The country is in the midst of an era of prosperity more extensive and of peace more permanent than it has ever before experienced.

The people of Porto Rico are not asking for charity.

The colored people have been the victims of the crime of lynching, which has in late years somewhat decreased.

A complete participation by the Indian in our economic life is the end to be desired.

The Government's responsibility to the American Indian has been acknowledged by annual increases in appropriations to fulfill its obligations to them and to hasten the time when Federal supervision of their affairs may be properly and…

When it reaches completion the people will be well served and the Federal city will be supplied with the most beautiful and stately public buildings which adorn any capital in the world.

This is the greatest building program ever assumed by this Nation.

The cause of constructive economy requires that the Government should cooperate with private interests to eliminate the waste arising from industrial accidents.

As the rise in living costs in this period is negligible, these figures represent real wage increases.

No discovery ever did more to increase the happiness and prosperity of the people.

While the area of lands remaining in public ownership is small, compared with the vast area in private ownership, the natural resources of those in public ownership are of immense present and future value.

This is of the utmost importance to the future well-being of our people in this age of oil-burning engines and the general application of gasoline to transportation.

This does not mean that every resource should not be developed to its full degree, but it means that none of them should be wasted.

The practical application of economy to the resources of the country calls for conservation.

Nor do I think this property should be made a vehicle for putting the United States Government indiscriminately into the private and retail field of power distribution and nitrate sales.

So far as I can judge, however, from the summary, their conclusions appear sufficiently favorable, so that I feel warranted in recommending a measure which will protect the rights of the States, discharge the necessary Government…

As private enterprise can very well fill this field, there is no need for the Government to go into it.

For several years the Congress has considered the erection of a dam on the Colorado River for flood-control, irrigation, and domestic water purposes, all of which ma properly be considered as Government functions.

While it has met with some failures due to unwise selection of projects and lack of thorough soil surveys, so that they could not be placed on a sound business basis, on the whole the service has been of such incalculable benefit in so…

The friendly relations and the extensive, commercial intercourse with the Western Hemisphere to the south of us are being further cemented by the establishment and extension of air-mail routes.

It is noteworthy that this development has taken place without governmental subsidies.

With the rapid growth of air mail, express, and passenger service, this new transportation medium is daily becoming a more important factor in commerce.

There is probably no way in which the Government can aid sound economic progress more effectively than by cooperation with our business men to reduce wastes in distribution.

While successive reductions in Federal taxes have relieved most farmers of direct taxes to the National Government, State and local levies have become a serious burden.