Calvin Coolidge Comments: "We must have an administration which is marked, not by the inexperience of youth or the futility of age, but by the character and ability of maturity."

"We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic of either an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. It stands out strong and vigorous and mature. We must have an administration which is marked, not by the inexperience of youth or the futility of age, but by the character and ability of maturity. We have had the self-control to put into effect the Budget system, to live under it and in accordance with it. It is an accomplishment in the art of  self-government of the very highest importance. It means that the American Government is not a spendthrift, and that it is not lacking in the force or disposition to organize and administer its finances in a scientific way. To maintain this condition puts us constantly on trial. It requires us to demonstrate whether we are weaklings, or whether we have strength and character. It is not too much to say that it is a measure of the power and integrity of the civilization which we represent." - Calvin Coolidge - from his book "Foundations of the Republic."