Calvin Coolidge President Quotations

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

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

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

One of the first things a President learns is that everything he says weighs a ton