Calvin Coolidge Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts 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."

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

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

"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."

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

"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."

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

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

"The business of America is business."

"No man ever listened himself out of a job."

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

"It takes a great man to be a good listener."

"One with the law is a majority."

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

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

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

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

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

"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."