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Before Hoover:
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
Calvin Coolidge
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge
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
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Calvin Coolidge
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Calvin Coolidge
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin Coolidge
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Calvin Coolidge
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Calvin Coolidge
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
Calvin Coolidge
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.
Calvin Coolidge
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
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin Coolidge
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Calvin Coolidge
It is probable that a press which maintains an intimate touch with the business currents of the nation is likely to be more reliable than it would be if it were a stranger to these influences. After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge
That’s some good Coolidge quotes.
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wow...that Calvin Coolidge was a bright guy
Mrs. Coolidge, nonplussed, asked “how many times a day would you say that rooster has his way with a hen?”
“About 20 times a day” the farmer answered.
“Be sure to tell that to President Coolidge.” she remarked.
So when the President came by the chickens the farmer told him “The First Lady wanted me to be sure to tell you that the rooster there has his way with a hen about 20 times a day.”
“Every time the same hen?” Coolidge asked.
“Every time a different hen.” the farmer answered.
“Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge” Cal replied.
In Animal behavior the tendency of a male who will turn down the mating overture of a female he has already inseminated but somehow find the strength if a “naive” female is introduced is known as “The Coolidge Effect”.
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"President Coolidge, I've heard you never say anything, but you seem like such a nice man! Do you know a friend bet me I couldn't get three words from you?"
"YOU LOSE."
Great post. Thanks.
