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
The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.
Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.
The school is not the end but only the beginning of an education
Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
One of the first things a President learns is that everything he says weighs a ton
No one every listened themselves out of a job.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.