I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, under the authority conferred upon me by the act of February 14, 1903, entitled 'An Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor' (32 Stats., 826), and by virtue of…

The transfers above-mentioned shall be effective from and including July 1, 1925.

Further, under the authority recited herein, I do hereby transfer from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Commerce, to be administered under the supervision of the Secretary of Commerce, the Division of Mineral Resources…

I want always to help every legitimate concern in the United States.

We must not fail to demonstrate in the time of peace that we are likewise determined to possess and maintain indestructible states.

In ordinary times nearly the entire burden of taxation represents state and local demands.

Our gathering here to-day is in testimony of supreme obligation to those who have given most to make and preserve the nation.

We can not hope to repay those whom we are assembled to honor.

Doing less would betray them and dishonor us.

This increasing unification has well-nigh obliterated state lines so far as concerns many relations of life.

United, it could go its way in all security; divided, both sections becoming the prey of jealousy and intrigue, would have dissipated all the power they now have for good in the world.

This is not local self-government.