Top 100 Coolidge Quotes
#1. I did it for you. I took in a pint of bourbon with me. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all.
Raymond Chandler
#2. The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year.
Amity Shlaes
#3. Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.
Will Rogers
#4. President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.
Will Rogers
#5. I've heard this attributed to Calvin Coolidge. "Behold the turtle. He never gets anywhere unless he sticks his neck out.
Mike Coyle
#6. Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.
Amity Shlaes
#7. Calvin Coolidge, "There is no right to strike against the public safety, by anybody, anywhere, at any time." In
Bill O'Reilly
#8. Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.
Ursula Parrott
#9. I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.
Merry Clayton
#10. Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.
Will Rogers
#11. Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.
David Greenberg
#12. Oh my God, I could watch Jennifer Coolidge for hours.
JJ Feild
#13. On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?
Dorothy Parker
#14. Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.
Will Rogers
#15. It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.
Diane Ladd
#16. The Business of Our Firm is Business"
-Donald W. Hudspeth from:
"The Business of America is Business"
-Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
#17. When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that You don't have to explain something you haven't said,
Robert A. Caro
#18. He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
Will Rogers
#19. He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.
H.L. Mencken
#20. Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.
Will Rogers
#21. Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
Clarence Darrow
#22. All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.
Robert E. Sherwood
#23. [On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?
Dorothy Parker
#24. Everything may evaporate at any instant. Everything!' I said with surprising vehemence. 'You, me, the most rocklike personality since Calving Coolidge; death, destruction, despair may strike. To live your life assuming otherwise is insanity.
Luke Rhinehart
#25. Why, I make more money than-than-than Calvin Coolidge, put together!
Jean Hagen
#26. [Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
#27. Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."
Calvin Coolidge
#28. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term I'll eat my spare tyre, rim and all.
Raymond Chandler
#29. Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
Clarence Darrow
#30. In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
Calvin Coolidge
#32. History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.
Calvin Coolidge
#35. I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
Rita Coolidge
#36. At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.
Calvin Coolidge
#37. It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport.
Calvin Coolidge
#39. Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
Calvin Coolidge
#40. We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.
Calvin Coolidge
#41. I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Calvin Coolidge
#42. Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
Calvin Coolidge
#43. There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!
Calvin Coolidge
#44. What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!
Calvin Coolidge
#45. It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.
Calvin Coolidge
#47. If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.
Grace Coolidge
#48. Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.
Jennifer Coolidge
#49. Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.
Calvin Coolidge
#50. Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.
Calvin Coolidge
#51. There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge
#52. 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.
Calvin Coolidge
#53. The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
Calvin Coolidge
#54. The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge
#55. If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.
Calvin Coolidge
#56. Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
Calvin Coolidge
#57. I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.
Calvin Coolidge
#58. One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.
Calvin Coolidge
#59. Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
Calvin Coolidge
#60. If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government ... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.
Calvin Coolidge
#61. I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
Rita Coolidge
#62. Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge
#63. One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.
Calvin Coolidge
#64. There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
Calvin Coolidge
#65. How often we all do so and what a pity it is that when morning comes and tomorrow is today we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently
Susan Coolidge
#66. The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
Calvin Coolidge
#68. Men. And they think that we're the weaker sex. At least we don't whine about every little thing, now, do we?
Jennifer Estep
#69. But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.
Julian Coolidge
#70. If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
Calvin Coolidge
#71. [The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.
Calvin Coolidge
#72. We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
Calvin Coolidge
#73. It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge
#74. They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin Coolidge
#75. Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.
Calvin Coolidge
#76. We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American
Calvin Coolidge
#77. My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.
Rita Coolidge
#78. Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light, And hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And here uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend.
Grace Coolidge
#79. Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,
Calvin Coolidge
#80. If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge
#81. [Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ... combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
Calvin Coolidge
#82. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
Calvin Coolidge
#83. What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
Calvin Coolidge
#84. No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil
Calvin Coolidge
#86. School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
Calvin Coolidge
#87. The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
Calvin Coolidge
#88. Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.
Calvin Coolidge
#89. We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
#90. Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies.
Calvin Coolidge
#91. A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.
Calvin Coolidge
#92. You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!
Jennifer Coolidge
#93. It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.
Calvin Coolidge
#94. Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.
Calvin Coolidge
#95. It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.
Calvin Coolidge
#97. The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
Calvin Coolidge
#98. It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.
Calvin Coolidge
#99. Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
