He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.

If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.