Amity Shlaes Quotes

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• Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

  Amity Shlaes

  War, Hands, Forever

  "The Great Refrainer: The Legacy of Calvin Coolidge". www.cfr.org. May 15, 2013.

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• The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

  Amity Shlaes

  Mean, Saturday, Stills

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• Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects history and history often doesn't get it right if it doesn't respect econ.

  Amity Shlaes

  Trying, Economics, Economy

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• 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.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Ku Klux Klan, Way

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. The experts have historically ranked Coolidge in the bottom quartile or bottom half of all presidents. But his economic performance and his statesmanship suggest Coolidge belongs in the top quarter of presidents. The disparity between the Coolidge price and Coolidge value is huge. So revision is warranted.

  Amity Shlaes

  President, Experts, Half

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than anyone. He's one of the best writers as presidents go.

  Amity Shlaes

  Writing, President, Intimidating

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Monsters, Economics

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Citizens, Benefits

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Simple, Differences

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• In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.

  Amity Shlaes

  School, Zuckerberg, Way

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• To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

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  Jobs, Government, Order

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• Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

  Amity Shlaes

  Community, Hobbies, Clubs

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

  Amity Shlaes

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  "Coolest Cal". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

  Amity Shlaes

  Pay, Vote, Should

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• People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

  Amity Shlaes

  Christian, Halloween, Valentine

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• Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with.

  Amity Shlaes

  Done, Ifs

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Bud, Ears

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• Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Years, Building

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• 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.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Grandparent, Zombie

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• Coolidge's stat was so low; he's ranked in the bottom half of presidents. What I found when I encountered this man was the leader I might like to see today.

  Amity Shlaes

  Men, Leader, President

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Writing, School

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• Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

  Amity Shlaes

  Country, Independent, Europe

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• Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Unions, May

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• 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.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Groups, Budgeting

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• Coolidge liked the dignity of the presidency. He didn't get on the phone easily. It's possible that he banished the phone from his desk. He was known to use it from time to time. The person who was hilarious with the phone was Hoover. He was a real engineer. He made a closed circuit phone where he could call the important people and they could call him, a government hotline, but it was closed. He shut out the possibility of input from people he didn't expect to get input from.

  Amity Shlaes

  Real, Phones, Government

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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