Calvin Coolidge
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Science Quotes by Calvin Coolidge (1 quote)
No person was ever honored for what he received; honor has been the reward for what he gave.
— Calvin Coolidge
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Quotes by others about Calvin Coolidge (2)
Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.
[Referring to the Scopes trial, with Darrow defending a teacher being prosecuted for teaching evolution in the state of Tennessee.]
[Referring to the Scopes trial, with Darrow defending a teacher being prosecuted for teaching evolution in the state of Tennessee.]
'Rogers Thesaurus'. Saturday Review (25 Aug 1962). In Will Rogers' Weekly Articles (1981), Vol. 2, 66.
Many times I have been asked why I have had no further role to play relative to the issues—even why I did not at least capitalize on my publicity and reap the monetary harvest that was close at hand. Perhaps my best answer is to paraphrase Calvin Coolidge’s “I do not choose to run”, for me it would be, “I did not choose to do so.”
In unpublished notes 'Reflections — Forty Years After', on website of famous-trials.com by Douglas O. Linder, law professor at UKMC, 'Famous Trials in American History: Tennessee vs. John Scopes — The “Monkey Trial”'. Quoted in Vernon L. Grose, Science but Not Scientists (2006), 560, cited on p.595.