Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he served from 1921 to 1923 as the 29th vice president, under President Warren G. Harding, and from 1919 to 1921 as the 48th governor of Massachusetts. Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, with a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor that earned him the nickname "Silent Cal".

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Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he served from 1921 to 1923 as the 29th vice president, under President Warren G. Harding, and from 1919 to 1921 as the 48th governor of Massachusetts. Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, with a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor that earned him the nickname "Silent Cal".

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Notable quotes

“[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.”
— As quoted in The Human Odyssey: Volume 2 by Tanim Ansary et al, p. 653.
“It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.”
— From 'Address at Holy Cross' (25 June 1919), published in Have Faith In Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd Ed.), Coolidge, Houghton Mifflin, p. 231.
“Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.”
— Adequate Brevity, page 50 (January 1, 1924).
“I do not choose to run for President in 1928.”
— Statement to reporters (2 August 1927); cited in Bartlett's Famous Quotations, 16th ed. (1992).
“I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President and I think I will go along with them.”
— To Ethel Barrymore, as quoted in Greenberg, David (2006). Calvin Coolidge. The American Presidents Series. Times Books. , p. 60.
“I feel I no longer fit in with these times.”
— To a friend, shortly before Coolidge's death, as quoted in Coolidge: An American Enigma (1998), by Robert Sobel, Regnery Publishing, p. 410.

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