Calvin Coolidge Comments: "Our country has one cardinal principle to maintain in its foreign policy. It is an American principle. It must be an American policy."- From First Annual Message of December 6, 1923.

"Our country has one cardinal principle to maintain in its foreign policy. It is an American principle. It must be an American policy. We attend to our own affairs, conserve our own strength, and protect the interests of our own citizens; but we recognize thoroughly our obligation to help others, reserving to the decision of our own Judgment the time, the place, and the method. We realize the common bond of humanity. We know the inescapable law of service."