Calvin Coolidge's Quotes

One with the law is a majority.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.