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30th U.S. President

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. Known for his minimalist approach to governance and conservative economic policies, his presidency coincided with the 'Roaring Twenties' era of economic prosperity in the United States.

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Famous Calvin Coolidge Quotes

“[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.”

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“While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.”

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“If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.”

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“These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.”

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“I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.”

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“I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.”

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Book:TALKATIVE PRESIDENT OFF

Source: TALKATIVE PRESIDENT OFF

“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”

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Book:The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century

“Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.”

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“A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.”

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Book:The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

Source: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

“The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.”

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“Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.”

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“If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.”

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“Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.”

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Book:Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings

Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings

“Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.”

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“In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.”

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“What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.”

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“No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity.”