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
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.
Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
I suppose I am the most powerful man in the world, but great power doesn't mean much except great limitations
Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom.
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
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.
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.