Charles C. Johnson
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“It is an axiom of political science that if a representative is desired he should be chosen by popular vote; if professional skill is wanted, it can best be secured by appointment.” Coolidge”
― Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President
― Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President
“Coolidge noted, they preserved “teaching,” which after all amounted to “leading,” and had given it the “same safeguards and guaranties as freedom and equality.” The state’s constitution had insisted, he pointed out, that “wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, are necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties.”46 In those “days of reverence and of applied reverence,” the alumni of Harvard – John Adams and Bowdoin chief among them – “knew that freedom was the fruit of knowledge”
― Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President
― Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President
“It is sometimes assumed that Americans care only for material things, that they are bent only on that kind of success which can be cashed into dollars and cents. That is a very narrow and unintelligent opinion. We have been successful beyond others in great commercial and industrial enterprises because we have been a people of vision. Our prosperity has resulted not only by disregarding but by maintaining high ideals. Material resources do not, and cannot, stand alone; they are the product of spiritual resources. It is because America, as a nation, has held fast to the higher things of life, because it has had a faith in mankind which it has dared to put to the test of self-government, because it has believed greatly in honor and righteousness, that a great material prosperity has been added unto it.”
― Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President
― Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President
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