[Charles Henrickson]

I recently read (via audiobook) this biography of Coolidge by Amity Shlaes:

There is much to admire about Coolidge. He worked very hard to restrain the growth of the federal government. He gave extraordinary attention to trimming the budget wherever possible, to practice thrift.

[Oratam]

It’s hard for me to imagine Coolidge as campaigner. The image of him leading a parade through Manhattan, and Greenwich Village no less, very nearly boggles my mind.

[Slyfox]

But as Coolidge advanced ever northward, a full seventy-five thousand enthusiastic marchers joined with him, representing any number of the city’s trades and professions.

Today those folks who followed Coolidge would be called TEA Party members.

[WayneS]

I've always thought Coolidge was cool. He's my second-favorite U.S. president.

Here are a few of my favorite Coolidge quotes:

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government, every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. (remember, this was 1924)

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Whether ones traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

I think these beat the hell out of "...when you redistribute the wealth a bit it helps everyone", don't you?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I have a land patent signed by him on my grandparents property in Washington.