“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”
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.”
GovernmentAll Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”
History“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”
Legal“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“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“Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.”
Trust“Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
Patriotism“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“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“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“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
Great“If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.”
Success“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“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
Work“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
Peace“The business of America is business.”
Business“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
Good“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“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
Strength