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
Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.
I guess I am not naturally energetic. I like to sit around and talk.
Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.
Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.
All growth depends upon activity.
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
The only hope of a short war is to prepare for a long one.
Baseball is our national game.
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.