Quotes By Calvin Coolidge

The business of America is business.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face 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.

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.

Advertising is the life of trade.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

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.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

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.

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

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.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

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

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

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

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

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

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

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.