It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.


From 'Address at Holy Cross' (25 June 1919), published in Have Faith In Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd Ed.), Coolidge, Houghton Mifflin, p. 231. - Address at Holy Cross (1919)

Calvin Coolidge Quotes

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own...

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own...

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own...

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own...