At a time when all the world is seeking for the adjudication of differences between nations, not by war, but by reason, the suggestion that we should limit the jurisdiction of our domestic courts is reactionary in the highest degree. It would cast aside the progress of generations to begin again the contest for supremacy between executive and legislature. Whichever side has won in that struggle, the people have always lost.


Ordered Liberty and World Peace (1924)

Calvin Coolidge Quotes

At a time when all the world is seeking for the adjudication of differences between nations, not by war, but by reason, the suggestion that we should ...

At a time when all the world is seeking for the adjudication of differences between nations, not by war, but by reason, the suggestion that we should ...

At a time when all the world is seeking for the adjudication of differences between nations, not by war, but by reason, the suggestion that we should ...

At a time when all the world is seeking for the adjudication of differences between nations, not by war, but by reason, the suggestion that we should ...