President Calvin Coolidge Quotes

#1. On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

Dorothy Parker

#2. Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.

Calvin Coolidge

#3. Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.

Phil Woods

#4. I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

Calvin Coolidge

#5. I get very concerned when we start hearing people who want to convert this country into a safe place for children. I am adult. I want available what I need to see.

Judith Krug

#6. It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

Calvin Coolidge

#7. The center of my sins
stuck behind a blocked door,
circled by hollow deeds
spread on my lifetime's floor

Munia Khan

#8. He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

Will Rogers

#9. As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

Calvin Coolidge

#10. When night falls people become as lonely as snowflakes floating down from a gray city sky. Now and again we fall past a streetlamp and are visible, a brief moment apart, REAL
we can be seen. We exist. Then we vanish into the gray darkness and the earth draws us to it.

Erik Fosnes Hansen

#11. The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

#13. I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

#14. I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

#15. I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.

Calvin Coolidge

#16. One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

Calvin Coolidge

#17. I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

Tracey Ullman

#18. 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

#19. Trout said this about all the stories he had torn to pieces and flushed down toilets or tossed into trash-strewn vacant lots, or whatever: 'Easy come, easy go.

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H'ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek.

George R R Martin

#21. [Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ... combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

Calvin Coolidge

#22. the philanthropic banker his brother-in-law, who predominated so much in the town that some called him a Methodist, others a hypocrite, according to the resources of their vocabulary;

George Eliot

#23. [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

#24. Well?"
"Well, what" she asked.
"Are we gonna do this or not?"
... "Do what? Should I whine and complain like the little bitch I am so you can pat me on the head and buy me something pretty to shut me up?

Kit Rocha