Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge Jr.was the 30th President of the United States. A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. Soon after, he was elected as the 29th vice president in 1920 and succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth4 July 1872
CountryUnited States of America
a little fat man with a notebook in his hand,
The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
After all, the chief business of the American people is business
I suppose I am the most powerful man in the world, but great power doesn't mean much except great limitations
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Anytime you don't want anything you get it.
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.