Quotes By Calvin Coolidge

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

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

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.

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.

The business of America is business.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

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.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

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.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

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.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

One with the law is a majority.

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

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.