Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

28 quotes

As a President of the United States from 1923 to 1929, Calvin Coolidge brought a distinctive perspective that shines through in every quotation. Whether reflecting on Work or Great, Calvin Coolidge brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Browse 46 quotes by Calvin Coolidge that cover ground from Work, Great, Time, Business, and Power. A favorite of many readers: "Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."

“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

Alone

All Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Peace

“When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Work

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Alone

“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Great

“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Strength

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Men

“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Good

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Alone

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Great

“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

Nature

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Peace

“The business of America is business.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Business

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Best

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Success

“When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Work

“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Work

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Legal

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Power

“Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism