Quotes By Calvin Coolidge

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

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.

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

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

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.

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.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

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.

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.

The business of America is business.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

One with the law is a majority.

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.

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.

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.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

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.

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

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.