Calvin Coolidge quotes

“They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

“Advertising is the life of trade.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

“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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

“Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.”

— Calvin Coolidge

“Civilization and profit go hand in hand.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

“The business of America is business.”

— Calvin Coolidge

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

“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

“No man ever listened himself out of a job.”

— Calvin Coolidge

“One with the law is a majority.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

“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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

“When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.”

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— Calvin Coolidge

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

— Calvin Coolidge