Quotes By Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

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

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

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.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

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 failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

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.

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.

One with the law is a majority.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

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.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

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.

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.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.