Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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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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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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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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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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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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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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The business of America is business.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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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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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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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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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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What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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.