Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing out deals to specific groups. Coolidge fixed a problem like that. He came into a rough time and he, and Harding before him, fixed that by budgeting.

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americans got Model A's and automobiles.