Quotes from 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.

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

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

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.

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

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.

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.

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

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

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.

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

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.

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

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

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.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

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.

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.

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.

We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Advertising is the life of trade.