Calvin Coolidge Quotes

If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a ...

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few...

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

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

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon rea...

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitut...

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effor...

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living withi...

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity...

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president and I think I'll go along with them.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise it can be experien...

One with the law is a majority.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the peop...

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt cont...

Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation...

If you see ten troubles coming down the road you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch befo...

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me...

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than uns...

The business of America is business.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plen...

No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.

...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned w...

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

The Business of Our Firm is Business"-Donald W. Hudspeth from:"The Business of America is Business"-...

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

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased...

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

The world is full of educated derelicts

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

After order and liberty economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy i...

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

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

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

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

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the thi...

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

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace an...

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grav...

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure i...

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or w...

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth an...

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

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were sh...

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in dev...

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than...

Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity...

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common tha...

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great se...

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