It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.
Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.
Fame is worth less than service.
I think the Bushes would have liked President Coolidge, though I often wonder what nickname 43 would pick for 30. President Bush has great respect for his father, and so did President Coolidge, whose father was also in government, albeit in a smaller way.
Coolidge and his treasury secretary Mellon loved new technology. Like JFK, C. C. divined that a new technology could lift the nation out of its doldrums; the only difference was that JFK's new technology was space travel, and Coolidge's travel by airplane.
The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
The different variables involved in anything creative, really, are massive. When it comes together, it just clicks, I suppose.
Not me. Give me honesty anytime.
If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.