Presidents Day

[nahtmmm]

One of my personal favorite Presidents is Calvin Coolidge. President Coolidge may not exactly have had the best administration, but Coolidge the man was a pretty smart guy. Quite a few of the things he said, I think, still apply today (note -- some of these may be paraphrases. Oh well. *sigh*):

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a

Comments

[huntingdon]

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong"

If only people would follow this one! It's very profound

[pkyyr]

Better a president bad in admin and still able to string words together to express deep thoughts, than a president bad in admin and says things like "I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be-hold hands", no? XD