President Coolidge Quotes

#1. [On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

Dorothy Parker

#2. 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

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

Calvin Coolidge

#4. 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

#5. When I walk the streets I want to call to the spirits that are mine and know they will love me not only for my scars.

Luisa A. Igloria

#6. He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

H.L. Mencken

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

Will Rogers

#8. This was I and not yet I, this was the wife of the President of the United States and she took precedence over me; my personal like and dislikes must be subordinated to the consideration of those things which were required of her

Grace Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

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. The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

Muhammad

#17. So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I'll be able to live in it. Really, it's an investment.

Sophie Kinsella

#18. He sat beside me pleasantly and played his sweet music to me, and in the end he foretold things that put drunkenness on my wits.

Lady Augusta Gregory

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

Dorothy Parker

#20. A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

Wanda Sykes

#21. I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.

George Soros

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

Calvin Coolidge

#23. 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

#24. I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.

Corbin Bernsen

#25. I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

Andrew Flintoff

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

Calvin Coolidge

#27. [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

#28. I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

J. August Richards

#29. Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.

Richard J. Foster