Quote #51

'It is rather difficult for me to pick out one thing:The country has been at peace during that time. It hasn't had any marked commercial or financial depression:it has been a time of a fair degree of prosperity:there has been employment for everyone who wished employment:a time of marked peace in industry as between employer and employees:a large reduction in the national debt, considerable reduction in taxes.' ~ on his legacy

More from Calvin Coolidge

  1. The measure of success is not merchandise but character.
  2. 'You lose.'
  3. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.
  4. In response to a friends bet that he could get more than three words out of him.
  5. They picked the Vice President for Harding, and they chose a durned fine man. (on whether he'd try to influence the nomination of vice pres…
  6. Coolidge: Sins. Mrs. Coolidge: Well, what did he say about it? Coolidge: He was against it.
  7. The normal must care for themselves.
  8. As president, Calvin Coolidge didn't do much of anything, but at the time, that's what we needed to have done.

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