Words matter. These are the best Calvin Coolidge Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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.
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.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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.
When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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.
If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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.
Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
Advertising is the life of trade.
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.
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
