Quote: 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]
Quote: When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: The business of the country is business. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: No one every listened themselves out of a job. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: Civilization and profits go hand in hand. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: Nothing in the 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. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: No man ever listened himself out of a job. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: 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. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: I have never been hurt by what I have not said. [Calvin Coolidge]
Quote: 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. [Calvin Coolidge]