Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Office

Quotes about: Office

• It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Greatness, Men, Self

  "The Autobiography Of Calvin Coolidge". Book by Calvin Coolidge, 1929.

• We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Oil, Office

• We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Religious, Law, America

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

• It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Self, Office

• In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Office, Political, Important

• While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Hard Work, Thinking, Office

• Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Office, People

• If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Loyalty, Party, Responsibility

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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