The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately. It would be exceedingly easy to set the country all by … - Calvin Coolidge

The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

But it will always be impossible to harmonize justice and war. It is always possible to purchase materials with money, but patriotism can not be purchased. Unless the people are willing to defend their country because of their belief in it, because of their affection for it, and because it is representative of their home, their country can not be defended. If we are looking for a more complete reign of justice, a more complete supremacy of law, a more complete social harmony, we must seek it in the paths of peace. Progress in these directions under the present order of the world is not likely to be made except during a state of domestic and international tranquility. One of the great questions before the nations to-day is how to promote such tranquility.

While we should not refuse to spend and be spent in the service of our country, it is hazardous to attempt what we feel is beyond our strength to accomplish.