Calvin Coolidge Quotes

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.
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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.
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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.
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
One with the law is a majority.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
The business of America is business.
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.
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Calvin Coolidge
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Vice President
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04 July, 1872
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05 January, 1933
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