[On being told of Calvin Coolidge's death] How do they know? (Coolidge was well-known for being a man of very few words.)
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Quoted in Writers at Work 1st Series by Malcolm Cowley (1958)Dorothy Parker
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As president, Calvin Coolidge didn't do much of anything, but at the time, that's what we needed to have done.
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
Clarence Darrow
Coolidge: Sins.
Mrs. Coolidge: Well, what did he say about it?
Coolidge: He was against it.Calvin Coolidge
News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.
A. J. Liebling
In the lifetime that has passed since Calvin Coolidge gave his speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in which he famously proclaimed that “the chief business of the American people is business,” the dominion of the ants has grown enormously. Look about: The business of business is everywhere and inescapable; the song of the buyers and the sellers never stops.
Mark Slouka
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