Quotation by Calvin Coolidge

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address before the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C. (April 16, 1928)Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge Cosmopolitan Book Co. (1931)broadside distributed to agents of the New York Life Insurance Company (1932)Claude M. Fuess, Calvin Coolidge: The Man from Vermont Little, Brown (1940)Coolidge Wit and Wisdom comp. John Hiram McKee, Frederick A. Stokes (1933)

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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.

Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933), U.S. president. Have Faith in Massachusetts, ch. 12, Houghton, Mifflin (1919).

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