Calvin Coolidge Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Presidential, Political, Four

• It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Libertarian Party, Important

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

• Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Money, Carpe Diem, Government

• The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Simple, Accountability, Political

• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Rights, Politics, Conservative

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

• What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Men, Temptation

• [The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Attitude, Men, Vanity

• A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Memories, Greatness, Men

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.171, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Depression, Years, Political

• If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Silence, Presidential, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Political, Politics, Nine

• 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

• These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Luck, Politics, Chance

• I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Taken, Ideas, People

• I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ferrell, Calvin Coolidge, Robert H. Ferrell, Howard H. Quint (1979). “TALKATIVE PRESIDENT OFF”, Dissertations-G

• 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

• If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Majority, Politics, Vote

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