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Quotes by Calvin Coolidge


Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
– Calvin Coolidge

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
– Calvin Coolidge
Advertising is the life of trade.
– Calvin Coolidge
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.
– Calvin Coolidge
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
– 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.
– Calvin Coolidge
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
– Calvin Coolidge
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
– Calvin Coolidge
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
– 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.
– Calvin Coolidge
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
– Calvin Coolidge
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
– 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.
– Calvin Coolidge
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
– 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.
– Calvin Coolidge
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.
– Calvin Coolidge
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
– Calvin Coolidge
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face 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.
– Calvin Coolidge
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
– 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.
– 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.
– Calvin Coolidge
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
– Calvin Coolidge
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.
– Calvin Coolidge
O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour.
– Calvin Coolidge
One with the law is a majority.
– Calvin Coolidge
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
– Calvin Coolidge
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
– Calvin Coolidge
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
– 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.
– Calvin Coolidge
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
– Calvin Coolidge
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
– Calvin Coolidge
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
– Calvin Coolidge
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
– 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.
– Calvin Coolidge
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
– 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.
– Calvin Coolidge
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
– Calvin Coolidge
I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
– 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.
– Calvin Coolidge
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
– Calvin Coolidge
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
– 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.
– Calvin Coolidge
The business of America is business.
– Calvin Coolidge
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
– Calvin Coolidge
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
– Calvin Coolidge
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.
– Calvin Coolidge