Famous Calvin Coolidge Quotations

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"It takes a great man to be a good listener."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation."
by Calvin Coolidge
"After all, the chief business of the American people is business."
by Calvin Coolidge
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
by Calvin Coolidge
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work"
by Calvin Coolidge
"Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont."
by Clarence Darrow
"Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!"
by Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson
"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."
by Calvin Coolidge
"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"
by Calvin Coolidge
"Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but dont be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but dont be a demagogue. Dont hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Dont hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Dont expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Dont hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation."
by Calvin Coolidge
"He appears to have been weened on a pickle."
by Alice Roosevelt Longfellow
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion"
by Calvin Coolidge
"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"
by Calvin Coolidge
"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say."
by Calvin Coolidge
"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them."
by Calvin Coolidge
"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them"
by Calvin Coolidge
"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."
by Calvin Coolidge
"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"
by Calvin Coolidge
"If there has been any crime, it must be prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United States illegally transferred or leased, it must be recovered. I propose to employ special counsel of high rank drawn from both political parties to bring such actions for the enforcement of the law. Counsel will be instructed to prosecute these cases in the courts so that if there is any guilt it will be punished; if there is any civil liability it will be enforced; if there is any fraud it will be revealed; and if there are any contracts which are illegal they will be canceled. Every law will be enforced. And every right of the people and the Government will be protected."
by Calvin Coolidge
"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it"
by Calvin Coolidge
"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you"
by Calvin Coolidge
"It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization."
by Calvin Coolidge
"It takes a great man to be a good listener"
by Calvin Coolidge
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers"
by Calvin Coolidge
"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"
by Calvin Coolidge
"More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.`"
by Calvin Coolidge
"Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you."
by Calvin Coolidge
"No man ever listened himself out of a job."
by Calvin Coolidge
"No man ever listened himself out of a job"
by Calvin Coolidge
"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"
by Calvin Coolidge
"No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave."
by Calvin Coolidge
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody."
by Calvin Coolidge
"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 derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
by Calvin Coolidge
"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 derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence"
by Calvin Coolidge
"Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man 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."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Nothing in the 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 are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country"
by Calvin Coolidge
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race"
by Calvin Coolidge
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business"
by Calvin Coolidge
"The chief business of the American people is business."
by Calvin Coolidge
"The business of America is business"
by Calvin Coolidge
"The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom."
by Calvin Coolidge
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
by Calvin Coolidge
"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten"
by Calvin Coolidge
"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct"
by Calvin Coolidge
"The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view."
by Calvin Coolidge
"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal"
by Calvin Coolidge
"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance"
by Calvin Coolidge
"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
by Calvin Coolidge
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once"
by Calvin Coolidge
"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"
by Calvin Coolidge
"When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results."
by Calvin Coolidge
"The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism."
by Calvin Coolidge
"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."
by Calvin Coolidge
"He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. On Calvin Coolidge"
by Clarence Darrow
"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
by Calvin Coolidge
"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 derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Nothing in the 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."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
by Calvin Coolidge
"My own participation in the campaign was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on the seventh of July. He was a boy of much promise, proficient in his studies, with a scholarly mind, who had just turned sixteen. He had a remarkable insight into things. The day I became President he had just started to work in a tobacco field. When one of his fellow laborers said to him, if my father was President I would not work in a tobacco field, Calvin replied, If my father were your father, you would.... We do not know what might have happened to him under other circumstances, but if I had not been President, he would not have raised a blister on his toe, which resulted in blood poisoning, playing lawn tennis in the South Grounds.In his suffering he was asking me to make him well. I could not. When he went the power and the glory of the Presidency went with him. The ways of Providence are often beyond our understanding. It seemed to me that the world had need of the work that it was probable he could do. I do not know why such a price was exacted for occupying the White House."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Civilization and profits go hand in hand."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good."
by Calvin Coolidge
"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."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance."
by Calvin Coolidge
"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."
by Calvin Coolidge
"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."
by Calvin Coolidge
"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."
by Calvin Coolidge
"[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeur at another ..."
by Calvin Coolidge
"I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you fin..."
by Calvin Coolidge
"I do not choose to run for President in nineteen twenty-eight."
by Calvin Coolidge
"I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man..."
by Calvin Coolidge
"I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen."
by Calvin Coolidge
"If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it."
by Calvin Coolidge
"It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace..."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeit..."
by Calvin Coolidge
"There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange f..."
by Calvin Coolidge
"These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose."
by Calvin Coolidge
"Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the..."
by Calvin Coolidge
"We thought we were made for each other. For almost a quarter of a century she has borne with my infirmities, and I have rejoiced in her graces..."
by Calvin Coolidge
"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."
by Calvin Coolidge
"While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had no national e..."
by Calvin Coolidge
"There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time."
by Calvin Coolidge


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