Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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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.
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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.
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The business of America is business.
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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.
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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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.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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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.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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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.
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In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope - nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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.