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
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.
When you see 10 troubles rolling down the road, if you don't do anything, 9 of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you.
Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.
If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
The things I never say never get me into trouble.
Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,
In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope-nothing of man.