17 October 2017

The President is a great office, not a great man

"Calvin Coolidge never made any pretensions to greatness. "It is a great advantage to a President and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man," he recorded in his Autobiography."
More about Coolidge at the United States Senate webpage.

2 comments:

  1. Hillary2020October 22, 2017 at 4:45 PM

    At various times this is more applicable than others.

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    1. Peter BearApril 20, 2019 at 11:05 PM

      This is always applicable; that's the point. It is the duty of the person in the office to remember that THEY are not great, but they have a duty to the office, and the people, to BE so.

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