Who is Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; ; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a Republican lawyer from New England who climbed up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming the 48th governor of Massachusetts. His response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action. The next year, he was elected the 29th vice president, and he succeeded to the presidency upon the sudden death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative and also as a man who said very little and had a dry sense of humor, receiving the n...
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Calvin Coolidge Quotes

• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
• 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.
• 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.
• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
• Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

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• Lynnlau30797769: stop supporting any candidate of either party willing to spend $1 next yr more than last yr. just starve out the bureaucrats and the republicrats (uniparty) who r destroying the nation. (not even $1 federal spending cut since prez calvin coolidge. that says it all !!!!!)
• Sitamartllc: "we cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once" -- calvin coolidge
• Arizona_lp: limiting it to president? calvin coolidge.
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• Adventuresahead: day 21 – left the blue bell campground and headed south back to where i had started, wind cave national park. along the way took a slight side trip to calvin coolidge lookout tower. ironically a forest fire had almost wiped it out the year before.

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