Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

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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."

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“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Great

All Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

“I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.”

— Calvin Coolidge

History

“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Great

“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

Government

“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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Work

“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Business

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Legal

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Strength

“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Funny

“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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Good

“Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Trust

“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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Work

“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

“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

“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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

Work

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Business

“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Men