Quotes By Calvin Coolidge

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.

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.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

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.

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.

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 never been hurt by what I have not said.

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.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

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.

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.