“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”
Legal
“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”
BusinessAll Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
“The business of America is business.”
Business“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
Great“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.”
Men“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.”
Experience“When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”
Work“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
Great“Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
Patriotism“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.”
Government“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.”
Alone“When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
Work“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”
History“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.”
Peace“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”
Business“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
Work“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.”
Best“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.”
Great“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.”
Power“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.”
Business“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.”
Men