12/04/2021 – “It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.” ― Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. And more…
In a long fully read list of “Silent Cal” quotes, I hadn’t heard this one, yet it rang true for me. I finally did write “remembrances of Mom”, close to 50 years after she went home to be with the Lord. I will follow below with more standouts. It was hard for me to narrow it down as you can see. But I will put the link to the full list at the bottom.
Do any resonate with y’all? Comments? This came up from the share of a short list of favorite all time presidents. Cal made my list. What are your top three? (say five if you include Washington and Lincoln)
Here goes with my remaining “not so short list” of Cal quotes:
“Of course our school life was not free from pranks. The property of the townspeople was moved to strange places in the night. One morning as the janitor was starting the furnace he heard a loud bray from one of the class rooms. His investigation disclosed the presence there of a domestic animal noted for his long ears and discordant voice. In some way during the night he had been stabled on the second floor. About as far as I deem it prudent to discuss my own connection with these escapades is to record that I was never convicted of any of them and so must be presumed innocent.”
― Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
“Well, they’re going to elect that Superman Hoover, and he’s going to have some trouble. He’s going to have to spend money, but it won’t be enough. Then the Democrats will come in. But they don’t know anything about money.
[To his Secret Service man, Edmund Starling]”
― Calvin Coolidge
“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”
― Calvin Coolidge
“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
― Calvin Coolidge
“The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.”
― Calvin Coolidge
“It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.”
― Calvin Coolidge
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
― Calvin Coolidge
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
― Calvin Coolidge
“If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.”
― Calvin Coolidge
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
― Calvin Coolidge
“I have often said that there was no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented in the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm.”
― Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in our world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, and the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in the republic, the other is represented by despotism.
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man. Of course we endeavor to restrain the vicious, and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reform which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of our religious convictions, or they will not come at all. Peace, justice, humanity, charity—these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of divine grace.”
― Calvin Coolidge
And this last one, is especially for our present day activist leftist pagan worldview judges in this country (your current imposter and accuser father is the Devil):
“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”
― Calvin Coolidge
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/101882.Calvin_Coolidge
Soli Deo Gloria!