“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
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.”
PowerAll Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
“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“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”
Legal“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“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“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
Great“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
Good“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
Work“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”
Business“When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
Work“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“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.”
Alone“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“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“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“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
Strength“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”
Funny“Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.”
Trust“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.”
Nature“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.”
Men