Quotes About Coolidge

I was like a waitress that got a job once in a while, and then Stifler's mom happened, and everything changed.

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.

Coolidge's stat was so low; he's ranked in the bottom half of presidents. What I found when I encountered this man was the leader I might like to see today.

His fairy godfather in the legislature was Senator Murray Crane. Few persons influenced Coolidge's life more than Crane; his father, and Dwight Morrow perhaps, then Crane. So we must pause here a moment and consider Winthrop Murray Crane, twenty years older than Calvin Coolidge, a papermaker, who having been dead a decade and a half as these lines are penned Crane may well be called a statesman.

Too often privilege in Massachusetts was bolstered by class-conscious arrogance tempered only when necessary by corruption. Coolidge was not corrupt. His personal ideals were high. But he was serene in the presence of this corruptible body in Boston even though he put on the incorruptible—a quickening spirit. He played a clean game with the run of the dirty cards!

Coolidge declared later that no one knew that McCall had told him to run and "some supposed I would run against him." But Coolidge was not of that stripe.

I do wish [Calvin Coolidge] did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Coolidge believed higher taxes were wrong because they took away from men money that was their property; he believed lower rates were good precisely because they encouraged enterprise, but also because they brought less money. Low rates starved the government beast.

Most presidents place faith in action; the modern presidency is perpetual motion. Coolidge made virtue of inaction.

Justice George Sutherland had led the Supreme Court in a sweeping rejection of the minimum wage in the District of Columbia. In his opinion—the case was called Adkins—Sutherland said that the minimum wage infringed on the individual's liberty to contract with his employer. The Sutherland opinion fit in with Coolidge's own general attitude, that the individual should have primacy—"All liberty is individual," he had said in a speech in 1924.

Coolidge weighed only 119.5 pounds, below the class average, despite a height that was slightly more than average, 68.9 inches.

Some papers were taken aback by Coolidge's sudden fame. The New York Times resented the fact that a policy it admired had been promulgated by a figure unfamiliar to its editors.

Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all the way back to President Coolidge - we have seen paychecks increase, economic growth be ignited, and, actually, more revenues come into the government.

It was Coolidge of whom Dorothy Parker, when told of his death, asked, "How can they tell?" Dorothy Parker was extremely witty, but in this case her amusing observation obscured the fact that Coolidge, who was undoubtedly dull, was also a fairly successful president–for the very reason that he did nothing, and said even less. That would not be possible today, of course. People had to do things, and would not rest until they had done them.

Coolidge is dead" "How could they tell?

The first time I ever came to Washington was to visit Calvin Coolidge in the White House with my father.

47. Former U.S. president Calvin Coolidge used to enjoy buzzing for his bodyguards and then hiding under his desk as they frantically searched for him.

She hasn't been back since, and we have a young per diem substitute who had taught shoes in a vocational high school on her last job. Though her license is English, she had been called to the Shoe Department, where she traced the history of shoes from Cinderella and Puss in Boots through Galsworthy and modern advertising. Best shoe lesson they ever had, she told me cheerfully. Until a cop came in, dangling handcuffs: 'Lady, that kid I gotta have.' To her, Calvin Coolidge is Paradise.

Coolidge really hated government being in the power business. He thought it was wrong. He saw the potential for growth in the power business. He didn't want the federal government in it.

turnovers to carry. The boys gave three cheers for her when

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.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

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