Quotes By Calvin Coolidge

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

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

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.

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.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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

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.

Advertising is the life of trade.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

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.

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.

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

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

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

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.

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

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.

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