Calvin Coolidge – Page 2

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. – Calvin Coolidge

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

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. – Calvin Coolidge

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

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. – Calvin Coolidge

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. – Calvin Coolidge

It takes a great man to be a good listener. – Calvin Coolidge

I have never been hurt by what I have not said. – Calvin Coolidge

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. – Calvin Coolidge

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. – Calvin Coolidge

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

The business of America is business. – Calvin Coolidge

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. – Calvin Coolidge

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. – Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Patriotism is easy to understand in America – it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. – Calvin Coolidge

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

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. – Calvin Coolidge