Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

"The chief business of the American people is business."

"When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The business of America is business."

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

"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."

"One with the law is a majority."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."

"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."

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

"The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise."

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

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

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

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

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

"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort."

"No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war."

"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."

"Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you."

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

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

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

"No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."

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

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

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

"Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character."

"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."

"It takes a great man to be a good listener."