Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
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.
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
Me being a compassionate person, I would never hold any grudges against my ex.
Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction of femininity.
If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.