Quotes By Calvin Coolidge

The business of America is 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 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.

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.

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 people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

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.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

One with the law is a majority.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.