Calvin Coolidge

Unless the locality rises to its own requirements, there is an almost irresistible impulse for the National Government to intervene.

Permanent success lies in local, rather than national action.

Society has not only the privilege but the absolute duty of protecting itself and its individuals.

It is too much assumed that because an abuse exists it is the business of the National Government to provide a remedy.

When practically the sole remedy for many evils lies in the necessity of the people looking out for themselves and reforming their own abuses, they will find that they are relying on a false security if the Government assumes to hold out…

Unfortunately, human nature can not be changed by an act of the legislature.

Everyone is aware that abuses exist and will exist so long as we are limited by human imperfections.

I am in favor of reducing, rather than expanding, Government bureaus which seek to regulate and control the business activities of the people.

The Federal reserve system is not a panacea for all economic or financial ills.

It is necessary only to recall the chaotic condition of our banking organization at the time the Federal reserve system was put into operation.

It would be difficult to overestimate the service which the Federal reserve system has already rendered to the country.

While individual judicial officers have sometimes been subjected to just criticism, the courts as a whole have maintained an exceedingly high standard.

While restrictive immigration has been adopted in part for the benefit of the wage earner, and in its entirety for the benefit of the country, it ought not to cause a needless separation of families and dependents from their natural source…

It is a satisfaction to report that a more general condition of contentment exists among wage earners and the country is more free from labor disputes than it has been for years.

But there are unfortunately a multitude of workers who have not yet come to share in the general prosperity of the Nation.

The Federal Government should continue to set a good example for all other employers.

Our merchants are altogether too indifferent about using American ships for the transportation of goods which they send abroad or bring home.

The great need of our merchant marine is not for more ships but for more freight.

If the country will be content to be moderate and patient and permit improvements to be made where they will do the greatest general good, rather than insisting on expenditures at this time on secondary projects, our internal Waterways can…

Many of the farmers are burdened with debts and taxes which they are unable to carry.

While the Government is not to be blamed for failure to perform the impossible, the agricultural regions are entitled to know that they have its constant solicitude and sympathy.

It has assumed a menace that is of national magnitude and warrants the Federal Government in extending its cooperation to the State and local agencies which are attempting to prevent its further spread and secure its eradication.

Another preventive measure of great economic and sanitary importance is the eradication of tuberculosis in cattle.

In my opinion cooperative marketing associations will be important aids to the ultimate solution of the problem.

Surpluses often affect prices of various farm commodities in a disastrous manner, and the problem urgently demands a solution.