Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 04. Juli 1872 |
Geburtsort | Plymouth Notch, Vermont, U.S. |
Todesort | Northampton,_Massachusetts |
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Beschreibung | Calvin Coolidge (geboren als John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; /ˈkuːlɪdʒ/; 4. Juli 1872 - 5. Januar 1933) war der 30. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von 1923 bis 1929. Der in Vermont geborene Coolidge war ein republikanischer Anwalt aus Neuengland, der in der Politik des Staates Massachusetts aufstieg und der 48ste Gouverneur des Staates wurde. Gouverneur des Bundesstaates. Seine Reaktion auf den Bostoner Polizeistreik von 1919 rückte ihn als Mann der Tat ins nationale Rampenlicht. Coolidge wurde im folgenden Jahr zum 29. Vizepräsidenten des Landes gewählt und übernahm das Präsidentenamt nach dem plötzlichen Tod von Präsident Warren G. Harding im Jahr 1923. Als er 1924 selbst gewählt wurde, erwarb sich Coolidge den Ruf eines konservativen Kleinstaates, der sich durch seine wortkarge Persönlichkeit und seinen trockenen Humor auszeichnete und den Spitznamen "Silent Cal" erhielt. Obwohl er |
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.
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.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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.
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
The business of America is business.
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.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
